These days I have received the second book about Mrs. Rosamond Loring ...
Decorated Book Papers
by Rosamond B. Loring (Fourth Edition)
Houghton Library
Harvard College Library
Este es un libro que, junto con el primero ya reseñado en este blog (primer libro), es infaltable en la biblioteca de un hacedor de papeles decorados. En su primera parte, diferentes autores como Walter Muir Whitehill, Dard Hunter, Philip Hofer, Hope Mayo y Veronica Ruzicka, nos muestran una excelente y completa biografia de la Señora Rosamond Loring en las diversas facetas de su vida: Su posicion en el estudio y elaboracion de papeles decorados, su vida como maestra y artista, como hacedora, coleccionista e historiadora de papeles decorados. Se presenta tambien una extensa bibliografia donde se reseñan los libros historicos confeccionados con los papeles realizados por la Señora Loring.
This is a book that, along with the first already mentioned in this blog (first book) is a MUST in the library of a maker of decorated papers. In the first part, different authors as Walter Muir Whitehill, Dard Hunter, Philip Hofer, Hope Mayo and Veronica Ruzicka, show us an excellent and comprehensive biography of Mrs. Rosamond Loring in various facets of her life: Her position in the study and decorated paper-making, her life as a teacher and artist, as a maker, collector and historian of decorated papers. It also presents an extensive bibliography which traces the historical books bounded with papers made by Mrs. Loring.
La segunda parte del libro muestra una extensa y muy interesante explicacion de los diferentes tipos de papeles decorados usados para encuadernacion de libros. Se nos habla de los primeros papeles para guardas, la historia del marmolado, papeles marmolados para guardas, papeles impresos, los papeles Dutch Gilt o Floreados, papeles al engrudo para guardas, algunos famosos papeles de guardas del siglo XIX, papeles de guardas de autor, y papeles de guardas pictoricos. Para cada uno se presenta una explicacion bien detallada de lo que significa cada uno de ellos, su elaboracion, sus particularidades y su uso.
The second part of the book shows an extensive and very interesting explanation of the different types of decorated papers used for book binding. It is told to us about early end-papers, the history of marbling, marbled end-papers, printed end-papers, Dutch Gilt or Dutch Flowered end-papers, paste end-papers, some famous Nineteenth-Century end-papers, publisher's end-papers and pictorial end-papers. For each one it is presented a very detailed explanation of their elaboration, their characteristics and uses.
El libro presenta tres apendices donde se explica maravillosamente el arte del marmoleado y de la preparacion de los papeles al engrudo, tal como lo hacia la Señora Loring, brindando de esta forma un regalo invaluable para todos los que queremos adentrarnos, estudiar y aprender este arte. El tercer apendice se refiere a una vasta lista de antiguos elaboradores de papeles decorados, en orden alfabetico de acuerdo con las ciudades donde trabajaban.
The book has three appendices which beautifully explains the art of marbling and the preparation of paste papers, in the way Mrs. Loring used to make them, giving a priceless gift for all us that want to begin, study and learn this art . The third appendix refers to a long list of early makers of decorated papers, arranged in alphabetical order according to the cities in which they worked.
Como clausura del libro, podemos deleitarnos con muestras de pagina entera, de una amplia serie de papeles decorados antiguos, pertenecientes a la Señora Loring. Verdaderamente un libro joya, que nos inspira y nos nutre, tecnica y artisticamente, y sobre todo nos lleva a la epoca de la Señora Loring, poniendonos en primera fila junto a ella en sus momentos de creatividad.
As a closure of the book, we can delight with full-page samples of a wide range of antique decorated papers belonging to Mrs. Loring. Truly a gem book that inspires and feeds us, technically and artistically, and transport us to the time of Mrs. Loring, putting us and she toghether in her moments of creativity.
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