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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.

   

- 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.

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