Three early French essays on paper marbling, 1642-1765
By: with an introduction and thirteen original marbled samples by Richard J. Wolfe.
Contributors: Wolfe, Richard J.
Publisher: Bird & Bull Press
Place of publication: Newtown, Pa
Number of pages: 106
Subjects: Marbling (Bookbinding); Marbled papers.
Other titles: Three essays on marbling.
Notes: Title on spine label: Three essays on marbling.

"Translations by Richard J. Wolfe"--P. [5].

"310 copies of this book have been printed"--Colophon.

Marbled samples and 2 ill. are mounted.
Table of contents: value: No. 1. For the making of marbled paper, called Turkish paper (unpublished manuscript, Lyon, ca. 1642; value: No. 2. The best method of making marbled paper (published in the Journal oeconomique, 1758); value: No. 3. The marbler of paper (published in the Diderot-D'Alembert Encyclopédie, 1765).