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THEMES IN AQUATINT
Franklin, Colin

- San Francisco : The Book Club of California 1978 - folio - half red morocco over marbled paper-covered boards, plain paper dust jacket - viii, 104 pages. - Order Nr. 3860 - Price: $ 150.00

First edition, limited to 500 copies. Printed at Cambridge University Press with color plates printed at the Curwen Press. Designed by John Dreyfus. A history of this form of book illustration and including 16 full color plates. "a handsomely illustrated study of the aquatint by an authority on the subject" - 200th Book of the Book Club of California no.160. Prospectus loosely inserted. Plain paper jacket is chipped along edges.

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BUNTPAPIER, HERKOMMEN, GESCHICHTE, TECHNIKEN, BEZIEHUNGEN... by Haemmerle, Albert Issued on the 150th anniversary of this firm. A history of decorated and marbled paper with 155 illustrations and 18 actual paper specimens tipped-in. Has a thirteen-page bibliography of the subject done in triple column and descriptions of 664 examples of decorated paper. Jacket chipped.