Decorated Book Papers, first published in 1942, remains one of the standard works on its subject. In it, Rosamond Loring, collector and maker of decorated papers, explores the history and use of decorated papers in the book arts: the early history of endpapers and marbling, marbled endpapers, printed endpapers, Dutch gilt or Dutch flowered papers, paste end-papers, nineteenth-century endpapers, publishers' endpapers, and pictorial endpapers. Appendices are devoted to the art of marbling, the preparation of paste papers, and a listing of some early makers of decorated paper.

The present edition reprints Loring's text, unchanged from the first, second, and third editions, and the memoirs of Loring by Walter Muir Whitehill, Dard Hunter, and Veronica Ruzicka, first published in the second edition (1952). In addition, there is a new account of Loring's life and work by Hope Mayo. The seventy-three color illustrations have been newly photographed from the actual paper samples, themselves from Loring's collection, that were included in Philip Hofer's personal copy of the deluxe first edition.

Hope Mayois Philip Hofer Curator of Printing and Graphic Arts at <>Houghton Library, Harvard University.

• Preface to the Fourth Edition
• Forweword
• Author’s Preface

Part I: Introduction

• Rosamond Bowditch Loring, 1889—1950
• Rosamond Loring’s Place in the Study and Making of Decorated Papers
• Rosemond Loring as Teacher and an Artist
• Rosamond B. Loring: Maker, Collector, and Historian of Decorated Papers
• Editions Bound in Paste Papers by Rosamond B. Loring: A Preliminary Checklist

Part II: Decorated Book Papers

• Early End-Papers
• The History of Marbling
• Marbled End Papers
• Printed End-Papers
• Dutch Gilt or Dutch Flowered Papers
• Paste End-Papers
• Some Nineteenth-Century End-Papers
• Publishers’ End-Papers
• Pictorial End-Papers

Part III: Appendices

• I. The Art of Marbling
• II. The Preparation of Paste Paper
• III. Some Early Makers of Decorated Paper Arranged Alphabetically According to the Cities in which They Worked

• Notes
• Index
• Plates
• Samples