Decorated Book Papers: Being an Account of Their Designs and Fashions, Second Edition

Rosamond B. Loring was an unsurpassed craftsman in her field, and a distinguished collector and scholar as well. Her Decorated Book Papers, privately printed in 1942, went out of print in six months: copies have been sought after ever since. The book includes a history of endpapers and of marbling and a description of the many varieties of decorated book papers, and it tells how to make them. This long-awaited new edition will have a Foreword by Philip Hofer and essays by Walter Whitehill, Dard Hunter, and Veronica Ruzicka. FOREWORD PREFACE CONTENTS LIST OF PLATES ROSAMOND ΒΟWDITCH LORING 1889–1950 ROSAMOND LORING’S PLACE IN THE STUDY AND MAKING OF DECORATED PAPERS ROSAMOND LORING AS A TEACHER AND AN ARTIST Early End–Papers The Early History of Marbling Marbled End–Papers Printed End–Papers Dutch Gilt or Dutch Flowered Papers Paste End–Papers Some Nineteenth–Century End-Papers Publishers’ End–Papers Pictorial End–Papers Appendices Notes Index