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Abbott, Jacob THE HARPER ESTABLISHMENT.
New Castle, DE Oak Knoll Press 2001 large 12mo. cloth xx, 5-182 pages
Reprint of first edition which was first printed in 1855. This reprint has a new historical introduction by Joel Myerson and Chris L. Nesmith.The Harper Establishment is the unique story of book publishing at the Harper Publishing Company of New York City. The reader is treated to a virtual tour of a mid-nineteenth century American publisher, department by department. From the time a manuscript arrives at Harper's, through its editing department, typesetting department, and printing department, every facet of Harper's publishing program is described in detail. Includes a section on marbling. This work is a fascinating read for anyone interested in publishing history.
Price: $ 29.95 other currencies Order nr. 117056

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(Baskerville, John) Milton, John PARADISE LOST. A POEM IN TWELVE BOOKS and PARADISE REGAINED. A POEM IN FOUR BOOKS TO WHICH IS ADDED SAMSON AGONISTES AND POEMS UPON SEVERAL OCCASIONS.
2 volumes. Birmingham John Baskerville for J. and R. Tonson 1760 8vo. contemporary calf with gilt border; spines gilt with leather labels and raised bands; marbled pastedowns and free endpapers (xxiii), 416; lxxii, 390 pages
Printed by Baskerville for J. and R. Tonson (London), from the text of Thomas Newton, D.D., bishop of Bristol and a Milton scholar who had published an edition of Paradise Lost in 1749 (DNB XIV, 403-5). First volume includes a list of subscribers and introductory poems: In Paradisum Amissam (in Latin) by Samuel Barrow, M.D., and On Paradise Lost by Andrew Marvel. Also includes introductory comments on the verse and the argument. Second volume includes table of contents and a biography of Milton. According to F.E. Pardoe, this was Baskerville's third printing of Milton's works; two were previously published in 1758 and 1759 (Pardoe 169). See also Philip Gaskell, 24-7; 28-9. This edition was listed in the Public Advertiser (London) on May 14, 1760. Noteworthy are the gilt-roll on the bindings and the marbled endpapers. According to Diana Patterson, the Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce offered a premium for the manufacture of marbled paper in 1759. Although no premium was awarded until 1763, Baskerville was an entrant, and the front endpaper of this work is illustrated with Patterson's article on the subject (Patterson, "John Baskerville, Marbler," in The Library s6-12 (3), 1990, 212-21). Previous owner's name inscribed on endpaper of both volumes. Front joint of first volume cracked, rubbing at edges. Gilt on spines dulled. Foxing. Copy of Patterson article laid in.
Price: $ 1,750.00 other currencies Order nr. 110054

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(Bird & Bull Press) Morris, Henry THE WORLD'S WORST MARBLED PAPERS, BEING A COLLECTION.
N.P. San Serriffe Publishing Co. 1978 tall 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 10 pages, 10 double-page marbled paper samples, 5 pages.
Limited to 400 copies, all numbered "1." This book is the first of the San Serriffe books. As Swift used Gulliver, Henry Morris resurrected his mythical author, Theodore Bachaus, from the Bird & Bull Commonplace Book and Number 13 to give us comments on a very bad lot of marbled paper he received. Very amusing. Spine and upper cover faded.
Price: $ 90.00 other currencies Order nr. 11227

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(Bird & Bull Press) Schmoller, Tanya REMONDINI AND RIZZI, A CHAPTER IN ITALIAN DECORATED PAPER HISTORY.
New Castle, DE Oak Knoll Books 1990 8vo. cloth-backed, patterned paper (in facsimile of an original Remondini pattern specially executed by Henry Morris), leather spine label. 55, (5) pages.
Limited to 215 numbered copies. Set in Perpetua and printed letterpress on Johannot mould-made paper by Henry Morris at the Bird & Bull Press. Italian block-printed papers were the start of the collection of decorated papers that Tanya Schmoller, and her husband Hans, gathered for over twenty years. The use of woodblocks to transfer designs to cloth and paper can be traced back in Europe to the fourteenth century. In the region of what is now Italy, there were several firms supplying these colorful papers, the most prominent being the firm of Remondini which was established in 1650. This work traces the history of the Remondini enterprise and also that of Giuseppe Rizzi who took over the Remondini woodblocks after 1861. It examines the sales techniques and production methods of these two firms and contains actual specimens of Rizzi decorated paper. Today such samples are rarely found and they are usually very expensive. The illustrations include a three-color facsimile of a Remondini woodblock and a fold-out reproduction of a decree authorizing the sale of gilt paper. There are also four pages of genuine Rizzi paper samples. Prospectus loosely inserted.
Price: $ 400.00 other currencies Order nr. 71189

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(Bird & Bull Press) Wolfe, Richard J. ON IMPROVEMENTS IN MARBLING THE EDGES OF BOOKS AND PAPER, A NINETEENTH CENTURY MARBLING ACCOUNT EXPLAINED AND ILLUSTRATED WITH FOURTEEN ORIGINAL MARBLED SAMPLES.
Newtown Bird & Bull Press 1983 oblong 12mo. quarter leather over marbled paper-covered boards, leather tips. 64 pages followed by the tipped-in samples.
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.
Price: $ 250.00 other currencies Order nr. 462

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(Bird & Bull Press) Wolfe, Richard J. THREE EARLY FRENCH ESSAYS ON PAPER MARBLING, 1642-1765
WITH AN INTRODUCTION AND THIRTEEN ORIGINAL MARBLED SAMPLES. Newtown, PA Bird & Bull Press 1987 8vo. quarter bound by E.G. Parrot in morocco and tips with leather spine label, and "snail" pattern marbled paper sides made by Wolfe especially for this edition. 106 pages.
Limited to 310 numbered copies and hand-printed by Henry Morris at his Bird & Bull Press on Umbria handmade paper. Wolfe has translated an unpublished manuscript from Lyon circa 1642, containing the earliest known French marbling recipe, an article from Journal Oeconomique,1758, and an article from the Diderot-D'Alembert Encyclopedie of 1765 into English. The Diderot article is especially interesting as it comments on the practical side of marbling, i.e., how much money could be made. The samples were produced by Wolfe using the instructions in the translated manuals. Included is a four-color sequence showing the various steps taken by Wolfe in producing the Placard pattern.
Price: $ 275.00 other currencies Order nr. 17530

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(Bookbinding) Comparato, Frank E. BOOKS FOR THE MILLIONS, A HISTORY OF THE MEN WHOSE METHODS AND MACHINES PACKAGED THE PRINTED WORD.
Harrisburg The Stackpole Co. (1971) 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. x, 374 pages.
S-K 4570. First edition. Sections on "The European Tradition in Bookmaking," "The Industrialization of the American Bindery," and "Modern Books and Publishing." With information on marbling. Minor chipping of jacket.
Price: $ 60.00 other currencies Order nr. 1648

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(Bookbinding) Nicholson, James B. A MANUAL OF THE ART OF BOOKBINDING.
New York Garland 1980 small 8vo. cloth. x, 318, (2), 18, (3) pages.
Reprint of the first edition of 1856, with a new introduction by Sidney F. Huttner. (Mejer no. 1950; Brenni no. 39). The first American manual on bookbinding and containing a detailed chapter on marbling and illustrations of binding equipment.
Price: $ 70.00 other currencies Order nr. 2511

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(Bookbinding) WHOLE ART OF BOOK-BINDING, CONTAINING VALUABLE RECIPES FOR SPRINKLING, MARBLING, COLOURING, &C.
Richmond Peter Cottom 1824 12mo. contemporary quarter calf over paper covered boards in later clamshell box. iv, 60 pages.
First American from the third English edition, with "considerable additions" (See S-K 7258. Pollard no.89). The 1811 English printing was the first English book devoted entirely to bookbinding. "It is very much a working bookbinder's notebook put in order for publication and owes little to the encyclopaedias." The best description of this important book appears in Highlights from the Bernard C. Middleton Collection of Books on Bookbinding (Rochester, NY, 2000, No.9, page 32): "The first English bookbinding manual, published more than a century after the earliest Continental ones. This slim, unillustrated book covers forwarding somewhat cursorily, but the sections on the sprinkling of book-edges, the sprinkling and marbling of leather covers, and the preparation of the colours are more than detailed. Gold tooling and stationery binding are also dealt with. In these days of complete openness among craftspeople, those of the younger generation may wonder why the book was published anonymously. The reason was that secretiveness was very prevalent at the time and, indeed, persisted in some quarters well within living memory. This apparent meanness of spirit can be understood in the light of very harsh industrial and social conditions and the complete lack of benefits paid by the State. Marblers, in particular, often erected partitions or kept the inquisitive out of their room in order not to be observed at work, so an author who divulged details of the 'art and mystery' of the craft would expect hostility from fellow practitioners. Authors of most later manuals were identified, but they gave generalized instructions which did not include the multitude of essential 'wrinkles' which greatly facilitate procedures. The question of authorship has exercised the minds of a number of historians. I have insufficient space fully to summarize the arguments. Suffice it to say that three candidates have been named: W. Price, an Oswestry binder, whose earliest date in directories is 1828; Nathaniel Minshall, the printer of the manual, and admitted as a solicitor in 1819; and Henry Parry, author of The Art of Bookbinding published in 1817. Of the three, Parry seems the most likely; the Oswestry volume was registered at Stationers' Hall in the name of Henry Parry, so it would be a remarkable coincidence if he were not the author."
This American edition is even more scarce than the English edition with only 11 copies cited in OCLC. This copy's foldout table in the back which lists prices for New York bookbinders is torn with most lacking, but facsimile reprint, with letter from previous bookseller, inserted.
Price: $ 8,500.00 other currencies Order nr. 109774

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(Bookbinding) Wolfe, Richard J. GEHEIMEN DER BOEKBINDERIJ, SECRETS OF BOOKBINDING, AN ANONYMOUS 19TH CENTURY DUTCH BOOKBINDING MANUAL, REPRODUCED IN FACSIMILE WITH TRANSLATION, INTRODUCTION AND NOTES.
Boston Richard J. Wolfe 1991 8vo. decorated paper over cloth-backed boards. xix, 15, 23, (7) pages.
Limited to 250 signed copies, 200 for sale. Text is a facsimile of original German text with translation on facing page. Gives information on gilding of leather; paper; silk; velvet and fore edge, marbling on edges of calf and sheepskin, and dyeing of calf and sheepskin. Tipped-in are 8 samples of some of the processes explained in the book. Marbled paper samples and cover paper were made by Mr. Wolfe who also executed the binding.
Price: $ 250.00 other currencies Order nr. 34250

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Brown, H. Glenn and Maude O. Brown. DIRECTORY OF PRINTING, PUBLISHING, BOOKSELLING & ALLIED TRADES IN RHODE ISLAND TO 1865.
New York New York Public Library 1948 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 211 pages.
Lists of bibliographies followed by directory and chronological index of names and newspapers and magazines by city. Lists marblers.
Price: $ 20.00 other currencies Order nr. 19970

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Brown, H. Glenn and Maude O. Brown DIRECTORY OF THE BOOK-ARTS AND BOOK TRADE IN PHILADELPHIA TO 1820, INCLUDING PAINTERS AND ENGRAVERS.
New York The New York Public Library 1950 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 129 pages.
First separate edition, reprinted from the Bulletin. Excellent source document. With information on marblers. Name in ink on free endpaper.
Price: $ 75.00 other currencies Order nr. 20568

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Fichtenberg, M. NEW AND COMPLETE MANUAL ON THE MAKING OF FANCY PAPERS BY M. FICHTENBERG
Edited by Richard J. Wolfe New Castle, Delaware Oak Knoll Press 2010 5 x 7.25 inches hardcover 242 pages
New and Complete Manual on the Making of Fancy Papers was originally written in French by M. Fichtenberg in 1852. Richard Wolfe has translated the book into English and added a new preface.

The craft of marbling paper was introduced into Europe and the Middle East from Turkey and Germany during the last two decades of the sixteenth century, and then into France in the first decade of the seventeenth century. England, Italy, Spain, Sweden, and other European countries began marbling as well, but the production outside of England still remained small. It was not until its introduction into the British Isles in 1750 that marbling increased in popularity.

In France, marbling was first performed by bookbinders who catered mainly to the needs of the book trade. This often meant marbled papers were used for decorating "extra" bindings, or even sometimes made for people who restricted their output to wallpaper. Fortunately, the nineteenth century saw a change in French marbling, as they were introduced to a Turkish pattern containing an infusion of turpentine in the final color. This created an appearance of a network of fine, lacey holes.

New and Complete Manual on the Making of Fancy Papers documents the changes and innovations in French marbling, and describes the marbling and fancy paper trades of the mid-nineteenth century. It also provides technical details on the manufacture of these papers and is a key source for information that couldn't be found anywhere else at the time.

This manual describes many steps in the marbling process. It describes the methods of making colors and the preparation of the aluminum serving to give body to the colors including reds and violets, yellows, blues, and greens. It discusses the preparation of hide glue, paste, glue, glazing, polishers, workshops, troughs, papers that are quilted, papers exhibiting the grain of wood, granite papers, printing, varnishing, sealing wax, and a variety of other details. Four pages of color illustrations complete the book.
Price: $ 85.00 other currencies Order nr. 106047

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Grünebaum, Gabriele BUNTPAPIER
Geschichte-Herstellung-Verwendung Köln DuMont Buchverlag (1982) 12mo. stiff paper wrappers 225+(7) pages
Written in German. Marbled and other kinds of colorful papers. With 98 illustrations, 24 in color.
Price: $ 30.00 other currencies Order nr. 105171

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GUILD OF BOOK WORKERS JOURNAL.
New York Guild of Book Workers 1967-2009 variously paginated
Filled with articles of interest to binders, papermakers, marblers, printers, etc. Includes the following:
Volume I, No.1(Fall 1962), 2, 3;
Volume VI, No.1 (Fall 1967)- 2009, a partial run of this journal being 66 separate issues;
Newsletter, Guild of Book Workers. 20 issues;
Index to the Journal: Volumes 1-VIII (1972); IX-XVII (1928); XVIII-XXVII (1991); XXVIII-XXXIII (1999);
By-Laws. 1966 revision;
List of Books in the Guild of Book Workers Library (1967).

Price is for the group
Price: $ 300.00 other currencies Order nr. 42255

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(Marbling) Chambers, Anne THE PRINCIPAL ANTIQUE PATTERNS OF MARBLED PAPERS.
Made and described by Anne Chambers. With an introduction by Bernard Middleton. Burford, Oxfordshire The Cygnet Press 1984 square 8vo. paper over boards. (v), 9 pages followed by 14 samples with descriptions.
First edition, limited to 250 numbered copies. Printed at Skelton's Press. With descriptions of Antique Spot, Antique Dutch, French Shell, Italian Shell, English Sotrmont, Gloster, Spanish, Peacock, and Stonemarble. Each type of marbled paper is represented by an actual tipped-in specimen. Faded along spine.
Price: $ 285.00 other currencies Order nr. 118235

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(Marbling) Easton, Phoebe Jane MARBLING, A HISTORY AND A BIBLIOGRAPHY.
Los Angeles Dawson's Book Shop 1983 small 4to. cloth, marbled paper sample inset in front cover. xiii, 190, (4) pages.
Limited to 850 numbered copies. Chapters on Suminagashi, marbling in the Near East, origins of marbling in Europe and America, mechanics of marbling, a bibliography of books on the subject, etc. Includes a number of tipped-in samples. Prospectus loosely inserted.
Price: $ 200.00 other currencies Order nr. 2475

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(Marbling) Easton, Phoebe Jane MARBLING, A HISTORY AND A BIBLIOGRAPHY.
Los Angeles Dawson's Book Shop 1983 small 4to. later quarter faux leather with marbled paper covered boards. xiii, 190, (4) pages.
Limited to 850 numbered copies. Chapters on Suminagashi, marbling in the Near East, origins of marbling in Europe and America, mechanics of marbling, a bibliography of books on the subject, etc. Includes a number of tipped-in samples. In a nice quarter leather binding.
Price: $ 250.00 other currencies Order nr. 118103

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(Marbling) Halfer, Josef DIE FORTSCHRITTE DER MARMORIERKUNST. EIN PRAKTISCHES HANDBUCH FUR BUCHBINDER UND BUNTPAPIERFABRIKANTEN.
Nach technisch-wissenschaftlichen grundlagen bearbeitet von Josef Halfer, Buchbinder in Budapest. II. Verbesserte und vermehrte auflage. Mit anhang verzierung der buchsnitte. Stuttgart Wilhelm Leo 1891 8vo. contemporary quarter leather with marbled paper-covered boards, all edges stained red, red leather spine label. 224 pages.
Second edition, improved and enhanced from the first edition published in 1885. This second edition of Halfer's famous marbling guide was the first to contain original samples and ten plates containing 35 marbled specimens. The traditional techniques of paper marbling were given new life in the late nineteenth century by this book and its extremely important author. In the handbook, Halfer introduces new methods, material and patterns of marbling that sparked a revival of the art amongst bookbinders and craftsmen. Halfer's innovations are based in scientific research, and his guidebook reflects his interest in the chemistry of colors and the physical nature of marbling sizes. As Richard Wolfe states in Marbled Paper: Its History, Technique and Patterns, "Halfer's influence in the art of marbling can not be overestimated." (See Wolfe, pp. 124-130). Rubbed along hinges and edges.
Price: $ 2,250.00 other currencies Order nr. 71034

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A Marbling Rarity - the first illustrated edition

(Marbling) Halfer, Josef DIE FORTSCHRITTE DER MARMORIERKUNST. EIN PRAKTISCHES HANDBUCH FUR BUCHBINDER UND BUNTPAPIERFABRIKANTEN.
Nach technisch-wissenschaftlichen grundlagen bearbeitet von Josef Halfer, Buchbinder in Budapest. II. Verbesserte und vermehrte auflage. Mit anhang verzierung der buchsnitte. Stuttgart Wilhelm Leo 1891 8vo. later half red calf with marbled paper covered boards, five raised bands, top edge gilt (a signed binding by Zaehnsdorf). 224 pages with 5 leaves of single mounted marbled paper specimens + 5 leaves each with 6 mounted marbled paper specimens
Text in German. Second edition--the first to be illustrated--of this seminal work on marbling by the Budapest based bookbinder and marbler, Josef Halfer. It was first published, without specimen papers in 1885. "The Halfer system is so important that marbling history is broken at this point, and referred to as pre-Halferian and post-Halferian marbling. The advantages of the Halfer system were two-fold: freed of the laborious preparation of colors, and with standardized colors, marblers could produce more work; and secondly, the use of carragheen size allowed finer detail in marbling" (Easton, Marbling, A History, pp. 78-9). See also R. Wolfe, Marbled Paper, 1990, pp. 124-30. From the reference library of the Zaehnsdorf Company with a commemorative booklabel loosely inserted. With the bookplate of the Zaehnsdorf Company. Tipped-in is a two page A.L.S. written by Richard Leo (see publisher), dated January 26, 1891. Addressed to a Mr. Zaehnsdorf, the A.L.S. expresses Leo's desire to leave Stuttgart and visit Zaehnsdorf. Rubbed along hinges and soiling along edges.
Price: $ 3,500.00 other currencies Order nr. 79990

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(Marbling) MARBLED AND PASTE PAPERS, ROSAMOND LORING'S RECIPE BOOK. A FACSIMILE OF HER MANUSCRIPT NOTEBOOK.
(Cambridge, MA) Houghton Library, Harvard College Library 2007 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 58 pages.
With an introduction by Hope Mayo and an essay on her materials and techniques by Sidney E. Berger.
Price: $ 75.00 other currencies Order nr. 118194

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(Marbling) McKay, Barry (editor) MARBLING METHODS AND RECEIPTS FROM FOUR CENTURIES, WITH OTHER INSTRUCTIONS USEFUL TO BOOKBINDERS.
Edited with an introduction by Barry McKay. New Castle, Delaware and Kidlington, Oxford Oak Knoll Books and The Plough Press 1990 8vo. cloth, gold-stamped paper onlay. (vi) 85, (14) pages.
First edition, limited to 500 copies. Typeset in Adobe Garamond, printed on acid-free Zerkall mouldmade paper, and bound by the Fine Bindery. A collection of six practical instructions on marbling paper, together with a number of recipes for bookbinders, drawn together from European literature written over four centuries. Two of the pieces are translated into English for the first time whilst the remainder are reprinted from rare or uncommon English sources. The texts are preceded by a short introduction by Barry McKay. Contains 18 original samples of marbled paper created especially for this work by Sarah Amatt, Geert van Daal, Katherine Davis, Karli Frigge, Don Guyot, Iris Nevins and Nedim Sönmez. The colored frontispiece reproduces a sample leaf of Halfer marbling.
Price: $ 135.00 other currencies Order nr. 30757

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(Marbling) Sönmez, Nedim and Dr. Nuran Sönmez92916 MARBLED FLOWERS
Tübingen Nedim Sönmez 2005 4to. leather not paginated
Limited to an edition of 38 numbered copies, signed and numbered by Nedim and Nuran Sönmez. It contains twelve unique pieces, all of which are tipped-in and numbered on the backing sheet. This is the first volume in a new series of three books with twelve original samples.
Price: $ 585.00 other currencies Order nr. 86897

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(Marbling) Sönmez, Nedim FROM EBRU TO MARBLED PAPER, ON THE HISTORY OF MARBLED PAPER IN THE ORIENT AND ITS WAY TO EUROPE.
Tübingen Jäckle-Sönmez 1995 4to. linen (6), 7- 47+(1) pages
Printed in a limited edition of 250 numbered and signed copies. Finely illustrated with even tipped-in original marbled specimens beautifully marbled for each book separately by the artist. An overview of the art of paper-decorating known as ebru, or marbling. Traces its origins in China and Japan to its use by Turkish calligraphers of the 15th century up to its influence on Western artists in the twentieth century. Translated in English alongside the German original by Margaret Johnson-Kubinski. Several patterns based on designs by Sebek Mehmed Efendi. Printed by Müller and Bass in Tübingen. Bound at Lachenmaier in Reutlingen.
Price: $ 325.00 other currencies Order nr. 62154

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(Marbling) Sönmez, Nedim SPIRALS IN MARBLING WITH 15 ORIGINAL SAMPLES OF NEW MARBLED PATTERNS WITH SPIRAL FORMS CREATED.
Izmir n.p. 2008 oblong 4to. leather not paginated ( but 19 leaves)
Limited edition of 39 numbered copies. 15 original samples of marbled motives with spiral forms - each 6.1 x 8.7 inches. All original samples and books are signed and numbered by the artist. Marbled endpapers are also by N. Sönmez, but are not signed.
Price: $ 380.00 other currencies Order nr. 98210

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