Decorated book papers : being an account of their designs and fashions / by Rosamond B. Loring.

"Rosamond B. Loring was an unsurpassed craftsman. Her marbled and paste decorated book papers were sought after by the Merrymount Press, the Club of Odd Volumes, and other publishers concerned with fine bookmaking during the first half of the twentieth century. She did much to revive interest in the crafts of marbling and making paste papers, and was a distinguished and original collector of historical and contemporary decorated papers." "Decorated Book Papers was first printed privately in 1942 and has been in demand ever since. The work includes a history of end papers and a description of the many varieties of decorated book papers. This fourth edition includes Loring's text from the first edition, as well as a Foreword by Philip Hofer and essays by Walter Muir Whitehill, Dard Hunter, and Veronica Ruzicka, reprinted from the second and third editions. It also includes a new essay by Hope Mayo on Rosamond Loring as a maker, collector, and historian of decorated papers, and a checklist of the editions bound in original paste papers by Loring. The 88 illustrations have been newly photographed in color from papers in the Rosamond B. Loring Collection of Decorated Papers at Houghton Library, Harvard University."--BOOK JACKET.

Preface to the Fourth Edition / Hope Mayo -- Foreword / Philip Hofer -- Rosamond Bowditch Loring, 1889-1950 / Walter Muir Whitehill -- Rosamond Loring's Place in the Study and Making of Decorated Papers / Dard Hunter -- Rosamond Loring as a Teacher and an Artist / Veronica Ruzicka -- Rosamond B. Loring: Maker, Collector, and Historian of Decorated Papers / Hope Mayo -- Editions Bound in Paste Papers by Rosamond B. Loring: A Preliminary Checklist / Hope Mayo -- Decorated Book Papers -- Early End-Papers -- The Early History of Marbling -- Marbled End-Papers -- Printed End-Papers -- Dutch Gilt Or Dutch Flowered Papers -- Paste End-Papers -- Some Nineteenth-Century End-Papers -- Publishers' End-Papers -- Pictorial End-Papers -- The Art of Marbling -- The Preparation of Paste Paper -- Some Early Makers of Decorated Paper Arranged Alphabetically According to the Cities in Which They Worked.

"First published in 1942 by the Department of Printing and Graphic Art, Harvard College Library ... The second edition of the work was published in 1952 by the Harvard University Press ... The third edition was published by the Department of Printing and Graphic Art in 1973... Because the three previous issues of this work were called 'editions,' the present printing is designated the forth edition, although Loring's text remains unchanged from the first edition."--P. xv-xvii.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

4th ed. / edited by Hope Mayo.