Chicago: Banghart & Fischer Craft Materials, 1912. Octavo. (8)pp., accordion-fold. Each page bears four samples, each labeled with its name, size, and price per sheet. For each style, the samples of every color option are stacked atop one another and stapled to the page. At the rear is tipped in..... More
(Paris: Perrigot-Masure, c. 1922). Framed sheet of handmade paper with a chiaroscuro watermark portrait of Dard Hunter as a young man, based on a photograph by Clara Ragna Johnson. To the left, his name is lettered in the style characteristic of the Arts and Crafts Movement. Sheets of this handmade..... More
(N.p. n.d.). Forty distinct samples, detailing a variety of patterns and colors, with particular attention to variations of the snail pattern. All but one cut down from larger sheets into strips; the other is wrapped around them. Some rubbing to edges, else a near fine collection, housed in an envelope..... More
(Mattapoiset, MA: Busyhaus Publications, 1983). Small oblong octavo. 65pp. One of 200 copies bound in hardcover. Illustrated with photographs of the artists, tipped-in paper samples, and woodcuts by Michael McCurdy. Introduction by Don Guyot. Apart from the description of the work of the twelve artists, among whom are Faith Harrison..... More
Nekoosa, Wisc. Great Northern Nekoosa Corporation, (n.d.). Small quarto. (3), (15), (15), (18)pp. Presented as four sets of sample papers, colors, embossing, and rendering techniques. The former are gathered under the title "Color on Color", while the latter appear under "Finishing Touches". These two sections are bound dos-a-dos in thick..... More
Newtown, PA: Bird & Bull Press, 1984. Quarto. x, 49, 24 pp. + (31)ff. One of 500 copies. Contains three foldout plates, nineteen color reproductions of Japanese watercolors, and 30 illustrated facsimile pages of an eighteenth century Japanese papermaking manual. These woodcut facsimiles are printed on handmade Japanese gampi paper..... More
