Decorated Book Papers

Being an Account of Their Designs and Fashions

Rosamond Bowditch Loring, Hope Mayo

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Houghton Library of the Harvard College Library
01 January 2008

Decorative arts

Series: Houghton Library Publications

Download a PDF of page 70 which contains a correction Decorated Book Papers, first published in 1942, remains one of the standard works on its subject. In it, Rosamond Loring, collector and maker of decorated papers, explores the history and use of decorated papers in the book arts: the early history of endpapers and marbling, marbled endpapers, printed endpapers, Dutch gilt or Dutch flowered papers, paste end-papers, nineteenth-century endpapers, publishers' endpapers, and pictorial endpapers. Appendices are devoted to the art of marbling, the preparation of paste papers, and a listing of some early makers of decorated paper.

The present edition reprints Loring's text, unchanged from the first, second, and third editions, and the memoirs of Loring by Walter Muir Whitehill, Dard Hunter, and Veronica Ruzicka, first published in the second edition (1952). In addition, there is a new account of Loring's life and work by Hope Mayo. The seventy-three color illustrations have been newly photographed from the actual paper samples, themselves from Loring's collection, that were included in Philip Hofer's personal copy of the deluxe first edition.

By: Rosamond Bowditch Loring
Edited by: Hope Mayo
Imprint: Houghton Library of the Harvard College Library
Country of Publication: United States [Currently unable to ship to USA: see Shipping Info]
Edition: 4th
Dimensions: Height: 218mm, Width: 160mm, Spine: 32mm
Weight: 839g
ISBN: 9780976547266
ISBN 10: 0976547260
Series: Houghton Library Publications
Pages: 215
Publication Date: 01 January 2008
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Hope Mayo is Philip Hofer Curator of Printing and Graphic Arts at Houghton Library, Harvard University.