Decorated book papers
Subtitle: being an account of their designs and fashions
By: by Rosamond B. Loring.
Publisher: Department of printing and graphic arts, Harvard college library
Published: 1942
Place of publication: Cambridge
Language: eng
Number of pages: 171
Subjects: Bookbinding -- Materials, etc.; Marbling (Bookbinding); Paper.
Description: "Rosamond B. Loring was an unsurpassed craftsman. Her marbled and paste decorated book papers were sought after by the Merrymount Press, the Club of Odd Volumes, and other publishers concerned with fine bookmaking during the first half of the twentieth century. She did much to revive interest in the crafts of marbling and making paste papers, and was a distinguished and original collector of historical and contemporary decorated papers. The work includes a history of end papers and a description of the many varieties of decorated book papers".
Notes: "Notes" (bibliography): p. [147]-157.
"Two hundred and fifty copies ... have been printed at the Harvard university press ..."
"Some early makers of decorated paper": p. [121]-145.