For 250 years after its introduction to Europe around 1600, the method of decorating paper known as marbling reigned supreme as the chief means of embellishing the fine work of hand-bookbinders. Richard J. Wolfe reconstructs the rise and fall of the craft and offers the most comprehensive account available of its history, techniques, and patterns.
A publication of the A.S.W. Rosenbach Fellowship in Bibliography Series
RIchard J. Wolfe was the curator of rare book and manuscripts in The Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine at Harvard University and the Joseph Garland Librarian of the Boston Medical Library. He has written on the subjects of early American music publishing, nineteenth-century color printing, and the book arts.