Miwaku no Maburu Pepa [In Japanese]

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Tokyo, Japan, Atelier Miura, 1988, Dark blue cloth, dust jacket

FIRST EDITION, Very Good

(Tokyo, Japan: Atelier Miura, 1988).

4to. 12 x 8 1/4 inches. (158) pp. Text in Japanese, illustrated throughout with beautiful color photographs, black-and-white illustrations, captions in Japanese, English, French, and German, drawings, bibliography, indexes in Japanese, English, French and German; text clean, unmarked. Dark blue cloth, spine titled in gilt, dust-jacket in archival mylar; binding square and tight. Bifold prospectus laid-in; prospectus bent at the fore-edge. LH823-045. Very Good. 

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FIRST EDITION. This book contains an early chapter on the history of paper-making, a technical chapter on contemporary tools used in the paper marbling studio, more than 120 color illustrations, including 67 images of named marbled patterns (examples include British Marble, Gravel Marble, Oak Leaf Marble) with precise instructions on the techniques used to achieve the specific patterns. The contents of this book are based on Einen Mirua’s exceptional collection of over 5,000 original marbled papers.

24 copies OCLC.