September 8, 2012

Marbled paper photographed in black-and-white, with streaks.

From Early English Portrait Miniatures in the Collection of the Duke of Buccleuch (1917). Original from the University of California. Digitized March 20, 2009.

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November 3, 2011

Wrinkled, textured boards. 

From the front and rear cover of Essays Relating to Agriculture and Rural Affairs, by James Anderson (1787). [Here]

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April 23, 2011
Texture of rag paper documented in detail (partial) Front front matter of The Statutes at Large (1763). [Here]

Texture of rag paper documented in detail (partial)

Front front matter of The Statutes at Large (1763). [Here]

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