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Decorated Paper Designs

Author: Pepin van Roojen, ed.

Publisher/Date: Pepin Press (2002, later printing)

Format/Condition: NEW softcover book in near fine condition: light crinkle/wrinkle at top corner. , 199 pages, measures 9×11 inches. Text in English, German, French, Italian, and Spanish.

Description: Presenting well over a hundred color examples, many of them in page-filling closeups, this book offers selections from one of the world’s foremost collections of marbled, block-printed, and brocaded papers, amassed over twenty years by Amsterdam antique book restorer Jacques Koops and book dealer Johannes Marcus.

The papers are organized by type and each section is introduced with a multilingual explanation of the papers’ origins and technique.