2 options
On improvements in marbling the edges of books and paper : a nineteenth century marbling account / explained and illustrated with fourteen original marbled samples by Richard J. Wolfe.
LIBRA - Vilain-Wieck Collection Bird & Bull Press 63
Available in person
Request an item
Access options
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Rare Book Collection Z271 .W632
Available in person
Request an item
Access options
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- French
- Subjects (All):
- Marbling (Bookbinding).
- Marbled papers.
- Genre:
- Private press books (Printing)
- Printing in multiple colors (Printing)
- Limitation statements (Publishing)
- Deckled edges (Paper)
- Case bindings (Binding)
- Gold tooled bindings (Binding)
- Untrimmed edges (Binding)
- Sample books.
- Penn Provenance:
- Vilain, Jean-François, 1942- (donor) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)
- Wieck, Roger S. (donor) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 64 pages, 2 unnumbered pages, 14 unnumbered leaves of plates : color samples ; 12 x 16 cm
- Other Title:
- Improvements in marbling
- Place of Publication:
- Newtown, Pa. : Bird & Bull Press, 1983.
- Contents:
- Introduction
- On improvements in marbling the edges of books and paper : reprinted from the Journal of the Franklin Institute, 1829
- A note on the samples in this edition.
- Notes:
- Translated from: The Dictionnaire technologique, ou Nouveau dictionnaire universal des arts et métiers ... at Paris by Thomine and Fortic between 1822-1828. See page 16.
- "Reprinted from the Journal of the Franklin Institute, 1829"--Page 29. For details see pages 15-16
- "Three hundred and fifty copies of this book have been printed at the Bird & Bull Press at Newtown, Pa. and bound by E.G. Parrot at Easthampton, Mass. This is copy number [blank]"--Colophon
- Title in black and red.
- Binding: gold-ruled quarter blue morocco over marbled boards; title ("IMPROVEMENTS IN MARBLING") stamped in gold on spine; deckled edges (fore- and tail edges untrimmed).
- Local Notes:
- Kislak Center copy is no. 147.
- Vilain-Wieck Collection copy is number 35 (the copy number supplied in manuscript) of a limited edition of 350 copies. See colophon.
- Vilain-Wieck Collection copy has a few manuscript marks in pencil on page 51.
- Kislak Center Vilain-Wieck Collection of Private Presses copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2013 by Jean-François Vilain and Roger Wieck.
- Cited in:
- Heaney, H.J. Thirty years of Bird & Bull, A37 (pages 44-45)
- OCLC:
- 11841947
The Penn Libraries is committed to describing library materials using current, accurate, and responsible language. If you discover outdated or inaccurate language, please fill out this feedback form to report it and suggest alternative language.