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(Alembic Press) Bolton, Claire MAZIARCZYK PASTE PAPERS
Oxford The Alembic Press 1991 8vo. quarter cloth, paste paper over boards. 53 pages.
First edition, limited to 175 numbered copies. Contains nineteen samples of Claire Maziarczyk's paste papers, and also describes how they are made. The text includes a history of paste papers and notes on the range of patterns used.
Price: $ 500.00 other currencies Order nr. 32939

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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 advertised in the Public Advertiser (London) on May 14, 1760. Noteworthy is 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) 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. Prospectus loosely inserted.
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) Cockerell, Douglas BOOKBINDING AS A SCHOOL SUBJECT
4 volumes. Hitchin Russell Bookcrafts various dates 12mo. paper wrappers. 16; 20; 16; 17 pages.
Mixed editions. Contains Binding Books of One Section, Binding Books of More than One Section in Cloth, Cutting Edges and Binding in Half and Whole Leather, and Marbling Paper by Sydney Cockerell. Not in Brenni.
Price: $ 60.00 other currencies Order nr. 29529

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(Bookbinding) Kersten, Paul DER EXAKTE BUCHEINBAND, DER GUTE HALBRFRANZBAND DER KÜNSTLERISCHE, GANZLEDERBAND, DIE HANDVERGOLDUNG, DER EINBAND MIT ECHTEN BÜNDE, DER PERGAMENTBAND.
Halle Wilhelm Knapp 1923 8vo. later cloth with paper wrappers bound-in. iv,143 pages followed by 21 full page plates of binding ornaments and illustrations of bindings and 4 pages containing 32 pasted on specimens of marbled and decorated papers; (ii),126,(9) pages.
Fourth edition, revised and enlarged. Contains 137 text illustrations, 21 plates and 32 paper specimens. Guide to bookbinding technique by one of the great German craftsmen of the period. (Mejer no.1874). Printed on cheaper paper. Bound with Paul Adam's Leitsoden für Gesellen-und Meister-Prüfung der Buchbinder. Dritte Auflage. Title page of second title has been tape repaired.
Price: $ 450.00 other currencies Order nr. 114230

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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) Nicholson, James B. MANUAL OF THE ART OF BOOKBINDING CONTAINING FULL INSTRUCTIONS IN THE DIFFERENT BRANCHES OF FORWARDING, GILDING AND FINISHING. Also, the Art of Marbling Book-Edges and Paper, the Whole Designed for the Practical Workman, the Amateur, and the Book-collector.
Philadelphia Henry Carey Baird & Co. 1874 8vo. original cloth. 318, 23 pages.
Third printing, the first occured in 1856 and the second in 1871. (Mejer 1950; Appleton p.83; Brenni no.39 - for first edition). Contains twelve plates of bindings and seven samples of marbled paper in addition to the illustrations in the text. James Nicholson (1820-1901) was born in St. Louis but lived most of his life in Philadelphia. He founded the bookbinding firm of Pawson & Nicholson, in Philadelphia, in 1848, and was well qualified to write a practical manual on bookbinding. Indeed, this was the first practical manual written in this country. The book reproduces the specimens of rolls and hand-stamps produced by the early American bookbinder tool makers, Gaskill, Cooper and Fry. 23 pages of ads at end. Wear at spine ends and one small damaged spot along spine.
Price: $ 400.00 other currencies Order nr. 115181

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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 encyclopeaedias." 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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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, while including 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.

The different countries had different methods and designs to their marbling. 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 presents the marbling and fancy paper trades of the mid nineteenth century. It contains procedures and processes of manufacturing, particularly of non-marbled papers that had declined. Explaining the origins of the new quasi-marble designs, still seen in a large number of French bookbindings, it also details the precipitation of colors through examination of European and American marbling manuals.

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-
Filled with articles of interest to binders, papermakers, 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. With
Newsletter, Guild of Book Workers. 20 issues. With
Index to the Journal: Volumes 1-VIII (1972); IX-XVII (1928); XVIII-XXVII (1991); XXVIII-XXXIII (1999); With
By-Laws. 1966 revision; With
List of Books in the Guild of Book Workers Library (1967). Price if for the group
Price: $ 300.00 other currencies Order nr. 42255

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Loring, Rosamond B. DECORATED BOOK PAPERS, BEING AN ACCOUNT OF THE DESIGNS AND FASHIONS.
Cambridge Harvard College Library 1952 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. xxxv, 171 pages followed by plates showing examples of marbled and paste decorated book papers.
Second edition, edited by Philip Hofer. The plates in this edition are better than those in the third edition. Jacket spine faded and with small pieces missing alonge edges.
Price: $ 40.00 other currencies Order nr. 41994

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Loring, Rosamond B. DECORATED BOOK PAPERS, BEING AN ACCOUNT OF THE DESIGNS AND FASHIONS.
Cambridge Harvard College Library 1952 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. xxxv, 171 pages followed by plates showing examples of marbled and paste decorated book papers.
Second edition, edited by Philip Hofer. The plates in this edition are better than those in the third edition. Jacket chipped along edges. Jacket spine slightly faded. Bookplate.
Price: $ 37.50 other currencies Order nr. 85233

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(Marbling) AMERICAN DECORATIVE PAPERMAKERS, THE WORK & SPECIMENS OF TWELVE CRAFT ARTISTS.
N.P. Busyhaus Publications (1983) oblong 8vo. half leather over cloth. 65, (3) pages.
One of 200 numbered copies bound in half leather by the Harcourt Bindery. A study of marbling with an introduction by Don Guyot, including essays and original tipped-in specimens by ten marblers made just for this edition along with technical notes, and a bibliography of the subject. Finely printed at the Naiman Press. Includes a wood engraving by Michael McCurdy.
Price: $ 350.00 other currencies Order nr. 5313

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(Marbling) AMERICAN DECORATIVE PAPERMAKERS, THE WORK & SPECIMENS OF TWELVE CRAFT ARTISTS.
N.P. Busyhaus Publications (1983) oblong 8vo. half leather over cloth. 65, (3) pages.
First edition, one of the 200 numbered copies bound in half leather by the Harcourt Bindery. A study of marbling with an introduction by Don Guyot, essays and original tipped-in specimens by ten marblers made just for this edition, technical notes, and a bibliography of the subject. Finely printed at the Naiman Press. Includes a wood engraving by Michael McCurdy. Leather has some dark spots.
Price: $ 300.00 other currencies Order nr. 95557

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A Marbling Rarity - the first illustrated edition

(Marbling) Halfer, Josef DIE FORTSCHRITTE DER MARMORIERKUNST.
Ein Praktisches Handbuch für 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) Halfer, Josef DIE FORTSCHRITTE DER MARMORIERKUNST. EIN PRAKTISCHES HANDBUCH FUR BUCHBINDER UND BUNTPAPIERFABRIKANTEN.
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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(Marbling) Hauptmann, Josef ART OF MARBLING (FOR THE DECORATION OF BOOK EDGES), A MANUAL FOR PRACTISING THE ART OF MARBLING USING HALFER'S METHOD. (in Dutch) DE MARMERKUNST, (TOT VERSIERING DER BOEKSNEDE.) EENE HANDLEIDINGTOT DE PRACTISCHE BEOEFENING DER MARMERKUNST NAAR HALFER'S METHODE.
Dordrecht Atelier De Distelkamp 1992 8vo. cloth, paper slipcase. 121, (5) pages.
Facsimile of the first Dutch edition published in Dodewaard in 1899 (first published in Germany in 1895). This is the first treatise on the technique of marbling to be published in the Dutch language, and it also contains the only known portrait of Josef Halfer printed as a frontispiece. Richard Wolfe (Marbled Paper, p.127) notes: "Josef Hauptmann of Gera and Berlin (1867-1917)...in Paul Kersten's opinion was Halfer's best pupil. According to Kersten, the manual Hauptmann produced was second only to that of the master himself." This facsimile reprint contains an English language translation and an added commentary by Jan Stoorm van Leeuwen who notes, "Written almost a 100 years ago, the little volume is easy to read even now. It is a crisp, clear-cut and plainly-written manual. Equipped with Leo's 'marbling kit' and Hauptmann's little volume, the interested reader has all he needs to try his hand at marbling" (The Art of Marbling, p. 121). Printed letterpress in only 275 copies and containing 21 tipped-in marble paper specimens (some gelatinized) produced by Lia and Geert van Daal in facsimile of those in the actual 1899 edition. Beautiful and important book.
Price: $ 200.00 other currencies Order nr. 101405

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(Marbling) Hewitt-Bates, J.S. and J. Halliday THREE METHODS OF MARBLING
Leicester Dryad Handicrafts n.d. small 8vo. paper wrappers. 16 pages.
Illustrated manual. Dryad Leaflet No.74.
Price: $ 10.00 other currencies Order nr. 13336

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(Marbling) Jonsson, Gunilla (editor) BIBLIS. ÅRSBOK 1990.
Stockholm Föreningen för Bokhantwerk 1990 8vo stiff paper wrappers, marbled 165, (3) pages
Text in Swedish. Two articles: one on book art and museums by Magdalena Gram, with black and white illustrations. Summary in German. The second article, on the use of Turkish and marbled paper, by Sten G. Lindberg with 29 color plates. Summary in English. Notes and bibliography.
Price: $ 30.00 other currencies Order nr. 108230

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(Marbling) Kantrowitz, Morris S. and Ernest W. Spencer. THE PROCESS OF MARBLING PAPER.
Washington GPO (1947) small 4to. stiff paper wrappers. (ii), 10 pages.
B-1 in the Bindery Series issued by the government.
Price: $ 20.00 other currencies Order nr. 38841

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(Marbling) Maurer, Paul and Diane Philippoff Mauer AN INTRODUCTION TO CARRAGEENAN AND WATERCOLOR MARBLING.
Centre Hall, PA by the authors 1984 oblong small 4to. paper wrappers. 23 pages.
First edition. Practical guide to marbling with many illustrations. Tipped-in are two large specimens of marbled paper with the first signed by the artist, Diane Mauer.
Price: $ 22.00 other currencies Order nr. 15850

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(Marbling) Nevins, Iris TRADITIONAL MARBLING
Sussex, NJ I. Nevins 1985 small 4to. cloth-backed marbled paper-covered boards. (vi), 44 pages.
Limited to 500 numbered copies signed by the author - publisher. A practical guide to the art of marbling paper with illustrations of the techniques described and 14 tipped-in specimens of actual marbled paper with text on how to repeat the pattern.
Price: $ 60.00 other currencies Order nr. 11698

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