This lovely Marbled Monday is from the front board of a collected volume of Spanish plays published at the beginning of the 1800s. See more here: Comedias famosas, volume 1.
Blind tooling on black leather 🖤 deckled bottom edge and stunning marbled papers by @jemmalewismarbling paired with the turn-in tooling from the other day . . . #McCallCo #bookbinding #grimoire #magic #magick #occultart #spellbook #bookofshadows #leatherbook #craftsmanship #leatherbound #booklover #journal #bibliophile #finebinding #blindtooling #blackleather #marbledmonday https://www.instagram.com/p/Cf4EwaHL5NB/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=
A very happy #marbledmonday! Lovely red endpapers and boards of The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication (1868) by Charles Darwin, first issue, one of 1500 copies. #darwin #charlesdarwin #rarebooks #firstedition #finebindings (at B & B Rare Books, Ltd.) https://www.instagram.com/p/Chk5kmXJE4n/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=
Actually, we do care, especially when it comes to this brilliant blue marbled binding and complimentary blue marbled endpapers! (Not pictured: blue sprinkled edges and a blue silk bookmark. Swoon!)
This style of leather marbling is known as Valencia marbling, a variation of Spanish marbling known for its bright, vibrant colors.
Lope de Vega. Colección de las obras sueltas. (Madrid, 1776).
Explore marbled paper found in Biodiversity Heritage Library's digitized publications and saved on my Pinterest board for this Marbled Monday.
This selection comes from the inside cover of Scientific Results of the Second Yarkand Mission (1878-1891) by Ferdinand Stoliczka and William Thomas Blanford. View more in @biodivlibrary with thanks to the Naturalis Biodiversity Center for digitizing.
Some faded but still beautiful marbling on a journal containing daily records of weather, recipes, and a printed almanac from 1795 [bMS 575/123 (22)]. https://www.instagram.com/p/CN2xi7xpNlP/?igshid=eo3iq8omvcc4
From: Wolfe, Richard J. The role of the Mann family of Dedham, Massachusetts, in the marbling of paper in nineteenth-century America ... Quincy, Mass. : Halliday Lithograph, 1981
We've been posting materials for #MarbledMonday for years, but for the first time ever, we get to post our own work. On Saturday, Jim Downey of Legacy Bookbindery led students, faculty members and librarians in a paper marbling workshop. Watch the video to see what we learned!
Since it’s #marbledmonday, here’s a picture of the endpapers in my favorite book to post: the 1569 copy of Dante’s “Divine Comedy” with the cat’s paw binding... #divinecomedy #catspaw #manyleatherboundbooks #rarebooks #antiquarian #italian #bookporn #bookcollecting #marbled https://www.instagram.com/p/CC3tsoihgqs/?igshid=1hy9vkuoaga7h
It’s #marbledmonday ! May this cosmic, interstellar, and heavenly example conjure up reveries of space exploration and discovery (or other derived daydreams) for you. . . . [image of marbled book cover and leather edge, marbled colors of blue, pink, gold, green, and white, leather is deep burgundy in color] . . . #marbledpaper #bookarts #cosmic #bookbinding #spaceistheplace #bookstagram https://www.instagram.com/p/Cb7ynR3rF9q/?utm_medium=tumblr
#marbledmonday Œuvres de Jean Racine, de l’Académie Françoise (1782). Best known for his tragedies, Racine was a #dramatist whose work embodied #neoclassicism. He was appointed as historiographer to Louis XIV, and eventually became secretary to the king. #jeanracine #louisxiv #frenchliterature #finebinding #endpapers (at New York, New York) https://www.instagram.com/p/BztTSCrn6zl/?igshid=b0qrcktdrjyz