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xviii, ix, 242 pages, 4 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations, facsimiles ; 19 cm

New and complete manual on the making of fancy papers / by M. Fichtenberg ; a translation into English of his Nouveau manual complet fabricant de papiers de fantaisie (PARIS 1852) by Richard J. Wolfe.

121 pages, 2 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 26 cm

Jacob Bigelow's American medical botany, 1817-1821 : an examination of the origin, printing, binding, and distribution of America's first color plate book, with special emphasis on the manner of making and printing its colored plates / by Richard J. Wolfe.

78 pages, 14 leaves of plates : illustrations, color samples ; 28 cm

The art of marbling / Franz Weisse ; translated from the German with an introduction and fourteen original marbled specimens by Richard J. Wolfe.

106 pages : illustrations (some color), facsimiles, 13 color samples ; 26 cm

Three early French essays on paper marbling, 1642-1765 / with an introduction and thirteen original marbled samples by Richard J. Wolfe.

Der vollkommne Papierfärber = The accomplished paper colorer : a facsimile reproduction and translation into English of the earliest extant German treatise on paper marbling and decoration together with an introductory discussion of the earliest specialized literature in Germany on the marbling and decoration of paper / translated and introduced by Richard J. Wolfe.

Publication of the A.S.W. Rosenbach fellowship in bibliography

xvi, 245 pages, 38 pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 32 cm.

Marbled paper : its history, techniques, and patterns with special reference to the relationship of marbling to bookbinding in Europe and the Western world / Richard J. Wolfe.

xvii, 23, that is, 46 pages, 8 unnumbered leaves : color samples ; 21 cm

Geheimen der Boekbinderij = Secrets of bookbinding : an anonymous 19th century Dutch bookbinding manual reproduced in facsimile with a translation, introduction, and notes / by Richard J. Wolfe.

161 pages : illustrations (some color), facsimiles, portraits ; 26 cm

Louis Herman Kinder and fine bookbinding in America : a chapter in the history of the Roycroft Shop / by Richard J. Wolfe and Paul McKenna.

x, 182 pages, 1 unnumbered leaf of plates : illustrations, facsimiles, portraits (1 color) ; 22 cm

Robert C. Hinckley and the recreation of the first operation under ether / Richard J. Wolfe.

xv, 445 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 25 cm

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New and complete manual on the making of fancy papers / by M. Fichtenberg ; a translation into English of his Nouveau manual complet fabricant de papiers de fantaisie (PARIS 1852) by Richard J. Wolfe.

Jacob Bigelow's American medical botany, 1817-1821 : an examination of the origin, printing, binding, and distribution of America's first color plate book, with special emphasis on the manner of making and printing its colored plates / by Richard J. Wolfe.

The art of marbling / Franz Weisse ; translated from the German with an introduction and fourteen original marbled specimens by Richard J. Wolfe.

Three early French essays on paper marbling, 1642-1765 / with an introduction and thirteen original marbled samples by Richard J. Wolfe.

Marbled paper : its history, techniques, and patterns with special reference to the relationship of marbling to bookbinding in Europe and the Western world / Richard J. Wolfe.

Geheimen der Boekbinderij = Secrets of bookbinding : an anonymous 19th century Dutch bookbinding manual reproduced in facsimile with a translation, introduction, and notes / by Richard J. Wolfe.

Louis Herman Kinder and fine bookbinding in America : a chapter in the history of the Roycroft Shop / by Richard J. Wolfe and Paul McKenna.

Robert C. Hinckley and the recreation of the first operation under ether / Richard J. Wolfe.

Stanley Cobb, a builder of the modern neurosciences / Benjamin V. White ; with the assistance of Richard J. Wolfe, Eugene Taylor.

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New and complete manual on the making of fancy papers / by M. Fichtenberg ; a translation into English of his Nouveau manual complet fabricant de papiers de fantaisie (PARIS 1852) by Richard J. Wolfe.

Jacob Bigelow's American medical botany, 1817-1821 : an examination of the origin, printing, binding, and distribution of America's first color plate book, with special emphasis on the manner of making and printing its colored plates / by Richard J. Wolfe.

The art of marbling / Franz Weisse ; translated from the German with an introduction and fourteen original marbled specimens by Richard J. Wolfe.

Three early French essays on paper marbling, 1642-1765 / with an introduction and thirteen original marbled samples by Richard J. Wolfe.

Marbled paper : its history, techniques, and patterns with special reference to the relationship of marbling to bookbinding in Europe and the Western world / Richard J. Wolfe.

Geheimen der Boekbinderij = Secrets of bookbinding : an anonymous 19th century Dutch bookbinding manual reproduced in facsimile with a translation, introduction, and notes / by Richard J. Wolfe.

Louis Herman Kinder and fine bookbinding in America : a chapter in the history of the Roycroft Shop / by Richard J. Wolfe and Paul McKenna.

Robert C. Hinckley and the recreation of the first operation under ether / Richard J. Wolfe.

Stanley Cobb, a builder of the modern neurosciences / Benjamin V. White ; with the assistance of Richard J. Wolfe, Eugene Taylor.

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