[Rarebooks] FS: 4 Books About Marbled papers

[John & Karen Howell]

Offered today, 4 books about marbled papers:

1 BOLTON, Claire.  The Compton Marbling Pattern Book: Illustrated with Twenty Seven Amples of Their Specially Hand Marbled Papers.  Winchester: The Alembic Press, 1986.  4to.  10 ¾ x 7 ¾ inches.  [46] pp.  Title page and text printed in red and black, 27 paper samples tipped in; text clean, unmarked.  Gilt-stamped red cloth, red end-papers; binding square and tight, light freckling and rubbing to the cloth, else fine.
$ 250
LIMITED EDITION of 96 numbered copies, this is number 66.  Hand set in Kennerley type, printed on Zerkall paper at the Alembic Press. 
 
2 EASTON, Phoebe Jane.  Marbling: A History and a Bibliography.  Los Angeles: Dawson’s Book Shop, 1983.  4to.  11 ¼ x 8 ¾ inches.  Xiii, 190, [4] pp.  Half-title, color frontispiece tipped in, title page printed in blue and black, numerous color examples on plates, and 6 samples tipped-in, black and white photographic illustrations, tables, bibliography, glossary, index; text clean, un-marked.  Beige linen with color marbled inset by Norma Rubovits on the front cover, spine titled in black; binding square and tight.  Fine.
$ 200
LIMITED EDITION of 850 copies designed and produced by Joseph Simon and Lillian Marks, set in photographic Bembo Types with handset Bembo display, printed on Natural 80lb Permalife Text with the illustrations on 80lb Natural Karma, bound by Kater-Crafts.  This book reviews the history of marbling with an emphasis on the development since the 1970s and provides reference material for the study of marbling with a very strong bibliography.
 
3 SÖNMEZ, Nedim.  From Ebru to Marbled Paper: On the History of Marbled Paper in the Orient and Its Way to Europe.  With Eleven Original Marbled Papers by….  Tübingen: Jäckle-Sönmez, 1995.  4to.  13 x 9 ¾ inches.  47, [1 blank] pp.  Text in German and English, 11 tipped in samples of marbled papers; text clean, unmarked.  Gilt-stamped red cloth; binding square and tight.  SIGNED by Nedim Sönmez on the colophon.  Fine.
 $ 300
LIMITED EDITION of 250 copies.  In addition to the lovely marbled paper samples tipped into this volume, this remarkable book provides a global historical summary of the technique of dipping paper to apply designs from the twelfth to the twentieth centuries. 
 
4 SÖNMEZ, Nedim and SÖNMEZ, Nuran.  Sönmez.  Klassische Marmoriermuster.  Classic Marbling Patterns.  Tübingen: N. P., 2002.  Series: Musterbuch-Reihe, No. 1.  Folio.  12 ¼ x 8 ½ inches.  [15] ff.  Plus 110 samples of marbled papers tipped onto cards and hand-numbered by the authors.  Text in English and German.  All loosely laid into a hand-bound, cloth sided portfolio, sides fold in, cloth tie to secure all, wide sides were printed silkscreen by Bernhard Michl and Nedim Sönmez.  SIGNED by the authors on the limitation page.  Fine.
$ 350
LIMITED EDITION of 100 numbered copies, this is number 32.  This book features works from the Sönmez Studio representing the complete spectrum of traditional patterns now in common use in Europe and already known in the Orient. 
 
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