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.; Bird & Bull Press
Publisher: Bird & Bull Press
Published: 1987
Place of publication: Newtown, Pa
Language: eng
Number of pages: 106
Subjects: Marbled papers.; Marbled papers -- Specimens.
Notes: Includes a facsimile of the original ca. 1642 Lyon manuscaript (p. [33-40])

Includes bibliographical references.

RBSC copy: "310 copies of this book have been printed ..." [No.] 283.

MASS copy: [No.] 238.  With prospectus laid in.
Table of contents: title: For the making of marbled paper, called Turkish paper (unpublished manuscript, Lyon, ca. 1642).; title: The best method of making marbled paper (published in the Journal oeconomique, 1758).; title: The marbler of paper (published in the Diderot-D'Alembert Encyclopédie, 1765)