notes Introduction, paper samples / Mysterious Marbler 1976

Author: BIRD & BULL PRESS – James SUMNER; Richard J. WOLFE (Introduction, notes, and paper samples)
Title: The Mysterious Marbler
Publication: North Hills, PA: Bird & Bull Press, 1976
Edition: One of approximately 250 copies (this is number 67)

Description: 8vo (23.5 x 15.5 cm). 68, [1, colophon] pages. 11 specimens tipped in. Original quarter blue morocco, marbled boards, edges untrimmed. In a cloth folding case. A fine, clean copy.

Printed on Hodginson B&B hand made paper with Times Roman types. The marbled samples and cover papers were made by Richard J. Wolfe. Bound by E. G. Parrott II. With the prospectus (age toned). Reprints Sumner\'s 1854 manual on marbling, \"representative of the various modes and styles of marbling, and of the means of accomplishing them\" (prospectus).

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