Rosamond B. Loring was an unsurpassed craftsman. Her marbled and paste decorated book papers were sought after by the Merrymount Press, the Club of Odd Volumes, and other publishers concerned with fine bookmaking during the first half of the twentieth century. She did much to revive interest in the crafts of marbling and making paste papers, and was a distinguished and original collector of historical and contemporary decorated papers.
Decorated Book Papers was first printed privately in 1942 and has been in demand ever since. The work includes a history of end papers and a description of the many varieties of decorated book papers. This fourth edition includes Loring's text from the first edition, as well as a Foreword by Philip Hofer and essays by Walter Muir Whitehill, Dard Hunter, and Veronica Ruzicka, reprinted from the second and third editions. It also includes a new essay by Hope Mayo on Rosamond Loring as a maker, collector, and historian of decorated papers, and a checklist of the editions bound in original paste papers by Loring. The 88 illustrations have been newly photographed in color from papers in the Rosamond B. Loring Collection of Decorated Papers at Houghton Library, Harvard University.
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