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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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(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) 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 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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(Marbling) Sönmez, Nedim UNDER THE SURFACE; WITH TEN ORIGINAL SAMPLES OF MARBLED PICTURES OF THE UNDERWATER WORLD'S NATURE.
Izmir Nedim Sönmez 2009 oblong folio leather, gilt lettering on cover & spine 15 pages, 10 marbled paper samples
This book has been produced in a limited edition of 19 signed and numbered copies, containing 10 original tipped-in marbled pictures of sea creatures. The paper is "de geerts": made in the old paper tradition of Holland, mouldmade, four deckle-edges, watermarked with a crown and "1625." Text by Nedim Sönmez in English (translated). Each sample is signed by hand.
Price: $ 595.00 other currencies Order nr. 102276

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THE MYSTERIOUS MARBLER.
With an historical introduction, notes on the English marbling tradition, and thirteen original marbled samples by Richard J. Wolfe New Castle, Delaware Oak Knoll Press 2009 5.5 x 8 inches hardcover 132 pages
Limited to 300 copies, reprinted from the scarce Bird & Bull private press edition of 1976. This printing of James Sumner's 1854 marbling manual includes a new preface by Richard J. Wolfe. A further note on the English marbling tradition has been added, along with thirteen tipped-in original examples of marbled papers by Wolfe.

The historical introduction, the text of Sumner's pamphlet, and the 1976 endnote appear exactly as they do in the first reprinting by Bird & Bull Press in 1976. Sumner discusses the little-known history of paper marbling prior to the nineteenth century. Marbling was a secretive and well guarded craft. Masters of the profession passed on their knowledge reluctantly to a very limited few, creating a monopoly on the trade. For this reason, printed information on marbling was extremely limited prior to the nineteenth century.

The expansion of the trade, including new ingredients and methods, created a need for the recording of exact patterns and recipes in order to produce marbling in an efficient and precise manner. Therefore, in the 1850s, printed work on marbling began to appear more readily. One of the first manuals on marbling was published in 1853 by Charles Woolnough, and Sumner's much smaller pamphlet could be considered a reinforcement to this earlier work. Sumner's text includes specific information on various types of marbling and precise recipes for their creation.

Sumner's original pamphlet had no exhibit samples attached. Wolfe added thirteen samples of marbled paper that were possibly created by Sumner himself, or by John Hargreaves, his associate, for the 1976 printing. The cover is a facsimile reproduction of an original nineteenth-century English marbled paper in the editor's collection.

Richard J. Wolfe's lengthy career as a rare books and manuscripts librarian has been distinguished by an extensive amount of bibliographical research and writing, especially on the history of marbled and decorated paper. He is also the author of Marbled Paper: Its History, Techniques and Patterns, University of Pennsylvania Press, 1989, as well as the translator and editor of Der Vollkommne Papierfärber:The Accomplished Paper Colorer, Oak Knoll Press, 2008.
Price: $ 60.00 other currencies Order nr. 103080

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Limited Edition Fine Press Book with Tipped-in Specimens

(Seymour, Edward) Berger, Sidney E. EDWARD SEYMOUR AND THE FANCY PAPER COMPANY: THE STORY OF A BRITISH MARBLED PAPER MANUFACTURER.
New Castle, Delaware Oak Knoll Press 2006 6 x 9 inches hardcover, quarter leather binding w/ slipcase 104 pages
This book, limited to an edition of 300 copies, tells the story of Edward Seymour and his firm, The Fancy Paper Company. This British company manufactured marbled and other decorated (fancy) papers for the bookbinding and related industries from about 1919 to 1971. With eighteen illustrations showing their methods and copies of correspondence, and twenty tipped-in, original examples of their many fancy papers, this work is a well-researched text about one of the last English marbled paper manufacturing firms.

Dr. Berger shares with his readers the vicissitudes of the company's fortunes, the personal lives of its owners, and the often touching correspondence he found among its business records. The author also informs us of the salaries, costs of doing business, and the unique demands of bookbinders for the company's products. The work ends with Edward Seymour's valiant efforts to keep the company afloat in the early 1970s.

This edition is published in the best tradition of the fine press book. It was typeset in hot metal, hand printed on 120 gpm, archival paper, and bound in quarter leather with slipcase by the Manoutios Press of Athens, Greece.
Price: $ 150.00 other currencies Order nr. 90944

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Wolfe, Richard J. (translator) DER VOLLKOMMNE PAPIERFÄRBER: THE ACCOMPLISHED PAPER COLORER.
A facsimile reproduction and translation into English of the earliest extant German treatise on paper marbling and decoration, together with an introductory discussion of the earliest specialized literature in Germany on the marbling and decoration of paper (by Richard J. Wolfe). New Castle, Delaware Oak Knoll Press 2008 5.25 x 7.5 cloth bound with a cover-paper reproduction of an early German decorated paper 180 pages
This new work, limited to 300 copies of which 275 are for sale, is a facsimile reproduction and translation of an important early German manual on decorated and marbled paper. Following an introduction by Richard Wolfe, the book displays the facsimile on the left page and a parallel translation on the opposing page.
All available information points to Venice as the entrepôt and to Augsburg, Germany, as the first recognizable production center for the art of marbling paper. The art of marbling was anonymously transferred from the Middle East to Europe shortly before the beginning of the seventeenth century. Germany remained the center for this and other methods of paper decoration in the following centuries, with factory-level industrial manufacturing initiated and carried on from the early nineteenth century. However, since these crafts were conducted in the secretive ways of the medieval guilds during the earlier period of their European life, little detailed information on their methods found its way into print until much later. It was not until the beginning of the nineteenth century that a serious and authoritative literature on marbling and paper decoration began to develop in Germany and in other locations.
In the historical introduction to the facsimile reproduction and his translation of this work, Richard J. Wolfe summarizes the professional literature on marbling and paper coloring that began to appear in Germany at the beginning of the nineteenth century. Der Vollkommne Papierfärber, published around 1823, is the earliest work of its kind that has survived. Wolfe shares his experience with a seemingly unique copy of this rare and seminal treatise that he initially encountered in Leipzig in 1987. He also discusses its relationship to other early pertinent literature that was published in Germany around the same time, particularly the works on bookbinding and paper coloring produced by Christian Freidrich Gottlob Thon. The story has a somewhat surprising ending.

Richard J. Wolfe's lengthy career as a rare books and manuscripts librarian has been distinguished by an extensive amount of bibliographical research and writing, especially on the history of marbled and decorated paper. He is also the author of Marbled Paper, Its History, Techniques and Patterns, published in 1990.
Price: $ 60.00 other currencies Order nr. 99499

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