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Marbled Monday
This Marbled Monday we’re sharing the cover of a book we posted about recently for Wood Engraving Wednesday! The book isAbd-er-Rhaman in Paradise byJules Tellier, translated by Brian Rhys, with wood-engravings by Paul Nash.You can find the wood engravings in our previous post. This edition was published in 1928 by the Golden Cockerel Press in an edition of 400 copies—ours is copy 16.
This marbling technique is called feather, and it’s easy to see why!
- Alice, Special Collections Department Manager
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Marbled Monday
This Marbled Monday we’re sharing an oldie but a goodie— Romanae Historiae Compendium ab Interitu Gordiani Iunioris Vsque ad Iustinium by Julius Pomponius Laetus (1428-1498), humanist professor and founder of the Accademia Romana. Also known as Giulio Pomponio Leto, members of his academy took Greek or Latin names, so his original Italian name is unknown. The book is a text on Roman history from the death of Gordian the Younger to Justinus and was published in 1500 in Venice by Bernardinum Venetum de Vitalibus. The binding, however, is probably late nineteenth or early twentieth century.
The marbling on this half binding is a Serpentine pattern and is quite striking, with green, yellow, and a reddish-toned brown swirled together in sort of triangular or chevron-like pattern. I found this book while browsing the stacks for good marbling, and boy did I find some!
- Alice, Special Collections Department Manager
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Marbled Monday
For this week’s Marbled Monday post, we’ve got the Constitution of the State of Wisconsin published in 1846 in Madison in what was then the Wisconsin Territory by B. Brown. It features the constitution of Wisconsin as “adopted in convention at Madison on the sixteenth day of December, in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and forty-six, together with the Act of Congress and the Act of the Legislature in relation to the formation of a State government in Wisconsin.” However, Wisconsin would not officially gain statehood until 1848, and it’s noted in the record for the book that the “Constitution was rejected by the People, April 6, 1847.”
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–Alice, Special Collections Department Manager
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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
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yo chiggity check yourself before you melt yourself
digital collage and acrylic marbling, 2016
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psychedelic geode (sold) bye bye, I loved you
acrylic, various paint, holographic foil, raw quartz crystals, glue and paper collage, 2016
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I just updated my Society6 page with new prints, and this is one of them! I uploaded all the individual planets as typographic posters too. iPhone/Samsung cases, laptop sleeves, pillow cases, bath mats, pouches, and totes are available for selected prints! Get them today while S6 is on sale and offering free shipping, until midnight PT only.
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This #marbledmonday feature is extra fancy, with some bright marbled endpapers and a gorgeous marbled leather binding.
Unlike tree calf and other stained leather bindings, which are decorated after the book is bound, this whole piece of leather was marbled first, and then cut to size for the binding.
A true marbley beauty inside and out!
Tiberius Cavallo. A Complete Treatise of Electricity in Theory and Practice (London, 1777)
Happy Marbled Monday!
(Teitelboim, V. (1991). Neruda: An Intimate Biography. Austin, TX: University of Texas Press. Browsing PQ 8097 .N4 Z8713 1991)
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(Brooke, R. (1926). The Collected Poems of Rupert Brooke: with a Memoir. London, UK: Sidgwick & Jackson. Rare Book PR 6003 .R4 1926)
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(Harvard College (1780- ). Class of 1862. (1882). The Fifth Report of the Secretary of the Class of 1862 of Harvard College : December, 1882. Boston, MA: Harvard University. Rare Book LD 2148 .F5 1882)
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From: Machiavelli, Niccolò, 1469-1527. The prince. London : Printed for Sherwood, Neely, and Jones, 1810
JC143 .M38 1810
