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The Compton Marbling portfolio of patterns.
Title:
The Compton Marbling portfolio of patterns.
Published/Created:
Oxford : Alembic Press, 1992.
Physical Description:
1 portfolio ([76] pages): 17 samples ; 27 cm.
Holdings:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Z271.3.M37 C6 1992+ Oversize
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Neale Albert, Yale JD 1961, and Margaret Albert
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Copyright Status:
Copyright Information
Full Orbis Record:
http://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/3365759
Classification:
Books
Notes:
Introduction [3] p. signed: CMB [Claire Bolton]
Consists of 17 folded leaves of 4 pages each, each with a marbling sample and description, and an introduction with title page of 2 folded leaves, or 4 pages.
A limited and numbered edition of 150 copies letterpress printed by Claire Bolton at Alembic Press.
SML,AOB: "No 54"--Colophon.
BAC: British Art Center copy is no. 29 of 150.
Contents:
1. Chatto & Windus, 1983 -- 2. Conran, 1987 -- 3. Crabtree & Evelyn, 1986 -- 4. Designer's Guild, 1989 -- 5. Viscountess Eccles, 1989 -- 6. Falkiner Fine Papers from 1981 -- 7. Glenmorangie, 1991 -- 8. Harrods, 1987 -- 9. Harvey Nichols, 1984 -- 10. Private customer, 1989 -- 11. Sangorski Sutcliffe Zaehnsdorf, 1986 -- 12. Tesco, 1989 -- 13. Woodmansterne, 1989 -- 14. Compton Marbling, 1991 -- 15. Compton Marbling, 1991 -- 16. Compton Marbling, 1991 -- 17. Compton Marbling, 1991.
Subject Terms:
Book ornamentation.
Decorative paper.
Marbled papers.
Marbling (Bookbinding)
Form/Genre:
Marbled paper.
Contributors:
Bolton, Claire.
Compton Marbling.
Alembic Press (Oxford, England) publisher.
Collection of Margaret and Neale Albert (Yale Center for British Art).
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