The whole art of marbling as applied to paper, bookedges, etc. :
containing a full description of the nature and properties of the materials used, the method of preparing them, and of executing every kind of marbling in use at the present time, with numerous illustrations and examples /
by C.W. Woolnough.

Description

Main Author

Woolnough, C. W. (Charles W.)

Related Names

Woolnough, C. W. (Charles W.).
Chiswick Press
George Bell & Sons

Language(s)

English

Published

London : George Bell and Sons, 1881

Subjects

Marbling (Bookbinding)
Marbled papers.
Book ornamentation.
Book ornamentation.
Marbled papers > Marbled papers / Specimens.
Marbling (Bookbinding) > Marbling (Bookbinding) / Handbooks, manuals, etc.
Sample books.
Specimens.
Handbooks and manuals.

Note

Includes index.
"The illustrative examples in this volume have been executed expressly for this work under the immediate superintendence of the author, and most of them by his own hand"--Page [43].
Includes 9 leaves of marbled paper samples from the London firm of W. Mansell & Co.
The plates are numbered 1-31, but some plates bear double numbers.
1st (1853) ed. and 2nd ed. have title: The art of marbling.
Printed by C. Whittingham & Co. at the Chiswick Press.

Physical Description

82 pages, [39] leaves of plates : illustrations, facsimile, samples ; 21 cm

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