Woolnough c w (3 Ergebnisse)

Paperback. Zustand: Brand New. 138 pages. 9.00x6.00x0.33 inches. In Stock.

300 copies printed in Scotch Roman on grey Cross Pointe Passport granite text paper; pp.51(3); 11 tipped-in samples of traditional marbled paper designs; fine in original canvas-backed marbled boards; paper label & cloth silk solander box. The first separate publication of Woolnough's 1878 lecture to the Royal Society. Barry McKay contributes a learned & readable account of Woolnough and the Whole Art of Marbling. MARBLED PAPER SAMPLES. PRIVATE PRESS BOOKBINDING.…

Vellum. Zustand: Fine. A very scarce limited edition treatise on paper marbling, one of only thirty copies. A very scarce and striking limited edition of three hundred copies. This is one of only thirty specially bound copies, in a quarter vellum binding, with a portfolio of originally nineteenth century and earlier marbled paper samples.In the original publisher's cloth dropback box, in a fine condition.Illustrated with a tipped-in colour frontispiece, and ten tipped-in colour plates, in addition to eight examples of marbled papers to the portfolio.Collated, complete.A lecture by C. W. Woolnough delivered before the Royal Society of Arts, in which he explores the art of paper marbling.With an introduction by Barry McKay.The examples of marbled paper in this volume were made by Ann Muir. In the original publisher's quarter vellum binding with marbled cloth to the boards, in the original cloth dropback box. Externally smart. Light marks to the vellum, as is usual to see. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean. Dropback box is fine. Fine. Ann Muir (illustrator). book.…