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ON IMPROVEMENTS IN MARBLING THE EDGES OF BOOKS AND PAPER, A NINETEENTH CENTURY MARBLING ACCOUNT EXPLAINED AND ILLUSTRATED WITH FOURTEEN ORIGINAL MARBLED SAMPLES.
Wolfe, Richard J.
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- Newtown : Bird & Bull Press 1983
- oblong 12mo.
- quarter leather over marbled paper-covered boards, leather tips.
- 64 pages followed by the tipped-in samples.
- Order Nr. 462
- Price: $ 250.00
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First edition, limited to 350 numbered copies. Reprints the first American Treatise on Marbling, an account which appears in the April 1829 issue of the Journal of the Franklin Institute with additional text by Wolfe. Beautifully printed on handmade paper. Prospectus loosely inserted.
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> From the Collection of Deborah Evetts
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> Morris, Henry, THE WORLD'S WORST MARBLED PAPERS, BEING A COLLECTION.
> Wolfe, Richard J., THREE EARLY FRENCH ESSAYS ON PAPER MARBLING, 1642-1765
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CATALOGUE D'OUVRAGES SUR L'HISTOIRE DE L'AMÉRIQUE, ET EN ...
by Faribault, G.B.
Bibliography of Canada books, maps, plans and engravings. Arranged in three parts: alphabetical order and anonymous works which together make up 969 entries; the third part concerns maps and plans. Ruled leaves inserted in between each page. Front cover, front free endpaper, plus two blank pages detached. Spine heavily worn, with loss of leather at the head of the spine. Previous owner's bookplate and binder's label on front paste-down.
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