A pretty mysterious art: a lecture by C.W. Woolnough to the Royal Society of Arts

• • Is type of work 

    Special collections

By

• • Has author 

    Woolnough, C. W.

Contributors

• • Contributor 

    McKay, Barry
  • Contributor 

    Muir, Ann

Publisher

• Publication

  Huddersfield [England]: Fleece Press, 1996

• Year

  • Publication year 

    1996

Is about

• Person

  • As subject 

    Woolnough, C. W.

• Subject

  • As subject 

    decorated paper
  • As subject 

    marbled paper
  • As subject 

    decorated paper
  • As subject 

    boekkunst
  • As subject 

    lezingen (vorm)

Type

• Language

  • Has publication language 

    English

Classification

• ISBN

  • 0948375531
  • 0948375523
  • 9780948375538
  • 9780948375521

Annotations / title notes

• Notes

  • Ten samples of marbled paper tipped in.
  • Issued in case, 23 cm.
  • "There are 300 copies of this book. 270 (220 for sale) are bound in quarter cloth. Thirty, of which twenty five are for sale, are bound in quarter vellum and are accompanied by a portfolio of original nineteenth century and earlier marbled paper samples. The new samples and binding paper were made for this book by Ann Muir. The type is Scotch Roman, set by Mouldtype, and the recycled, acid-free paper is Cross Pointe Passport granite text. Bound in Otley by Smith Settle"--Colophon.
  • Published originally in the Royal Society of Arts Journal, Jan. 25, 1878.

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