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Jan Christiaan Sepp. The Book of Marble

Geert-Jan Koot

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English
Taschen GmbH
25 July 2023
In 1776, at the Enlightenment's height, Jan Christiaan Sepp published a wholly unique and striking work: A Representation of Marble Types. Across 100 richly hand-colored plates, it traced an elegant visual journey through 570 different marble types. This facsimile edition, a world first, devotedly brings to life a forgotten book of great knowledge and rare beauty.

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Imprint:   Taschen GmbH
Country of Publication:   Germany
Edition:   Multilingual edition
Dimensions:   Height: 304mm,  Width: 243mm, 
Weight:   1.854kg
ISBN:   9783836594349
ISBN 10:   383659434X
Pages:   312
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Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active

Geert-Jan Koot holds an MA in Art History and Archaeology from the Radboud University, Nijmegen. From 1988, he was the head of the Rijksmuseum’s Research Library and curator of library collections, as well as chair of the Working Group for Specialist Academic Libraries, until his retirement in 2021. Koot has also spearheaded the WorldCat Art Discovery project, a new search tool for art libraries hosting over 250 million articles.

Reviews for Jan Christiaan Sepp. The Book of Marble

“The plates – each meticulously hand-colored and arranged with painstaking precision – offer an abstract-art feel that gives the recent volume a reinvigorated slant, arousing the contemporary senses of modern readers.” * designboom * “…mesmerizing doesn’t even begin to describe the exquisite patterns on these stones.” * Domino * “This true polyglot edition with 100 brilliant, hand-colored plates of marble specimens from all parts of Europe is one of the finest works to come from the Amsterdam scientific publishing firm of Jan Christiaan Sepp.” * The Mineralogical Record *


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