Wolfe, Richard J: ON THE IMPROVEMENTS OF MARBLING THE EDGES OF BOOKS AND PAPER

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Wolfe, Richard J : ON THE IMPROVEMENTS OF MARBLING THE EDGES OF BOOKS AND PAPER

Bird & Bull Press, Newtown, 1983

Oblong 8vo (4 1/4 x 6 1/4 inches), bound in quarter powder blue morocco gilt lettered spine over marbled paper covered boards with leather tips. The text is 64 pages followed BY FOURTEEN ORIGINAL MARBLED SAMPLES. First edition, limited to 350 numbered copies. This attractive book 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 in letterpress on handmade paper and finely bound by Gray Parrot. Fine, as Issued.

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