A pretty mysterious art
Subtitle: a lecture
By: by C.W. Woolnough to the Royal Society of Arts ; introduced by Barry McKay & new marbled samples by Ann Muir.
Contributors: Muir, Ann.; Fleece Press.; Mouldtype Foundry.; Smith Settle (Firm); Royal Society of Arts (Great Britain)
Publisher: Fleece Press
Published: 1996
Place of publication: Huddersfield [England]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 51
Subjects: Marbling (Bookbinding)
Other titles: Journal of the Society of Arts.
Notes: Originally published in the Journal of the Society of Arts, v. 26, Jan. 25, 1878.

"There are 300 copies of this book. 270 (220 for sale) are bound in quarter cloth [and] thirty ... are bound in quarter vellum ... accompanied by a portfolio of ... [historical] samples"--Colophon.

Title in red and black.

Set in Scotch Roman by Mouldtype on recycled Cross Pointe Passport granite text paper. Bound by Smith Settle.

Bound in quarter yellow cloth with marbled paper over boards and printed spine label. In red cloth clamshell case.

Library has one of the cloth copies, unnumbered.