Main entry:

Loring, Rosamond B. (Rosamond Bowditch), 1889-1950, author.

Title & Author:

Decorated book papers : being an account of their designs and fashions / by Rosamond B. Loring.

Edition:

Third edition / edited by Philip Hofer.

Publication:

Cambridge : Harvard College Library, Department of Printing and Graphic Arts, 1973.
©1973

Description:

xxxv, 171 pages, 16 pages of plates : illustrations ; 21 cm

Notes:
"In the present edition, plates 2, 5, and 8 differ from the 1952 edition, which was published by Harvard University Press"--Title page verso.
First published in 1942; second edition published 1952.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Foreword / by Philip Hofer -- Author's preface -- Introduction. Rosamond Bowditch Loring, 1889-1950 / by Walter Muir Whitehill -- Rosamond Loring's place in the study and making of decorated papers / by Dard Hunter -- Rosamond Loring as a teacher and an artist / by Veronica Ruzicka -- Decorated book papers. 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 -- Appendix I. The art of marbling -- Appendix II. The preparation of paste paper -- Appendix III. Some early makers of decorated paper arranged alphabetically according to the cities in which they worked -- Notes -- Index.

Subject:

Endpapers.
Book ornamentation.
Marbled papers.
Paste papers.
Decorative paper.
Marbling (Bookbinding)
Bookbinding Materials.
Book Ornamentation
Gardes (Reliure)
Livres Ornementation.
Papier marbré.
Papier décoratif.
Marbrure (Reliure)
Reliure manuelle Matériaux.
marbling.

Added entries:

Hofer, Philip, 1898-1984, editor.
Harvard College Library. Department of Printing and Graphic Arts, publisher.

Holdings:

Location: Library study room 108104
Call No.: ID Z271 REF; ID:85-B17419
Status: Available