Title
Bookbinding as a School Subject. Marbling Paper, 2nd ed.
Coverage
Sydney M. Cockerell.
Hitchen, England:
Publisher
G.W. Russell and Son Limited,
Date
undated.
Description
Sydney Morris Cockerell (1906–1987) was a British bookbinder and conservator who took over his father’s firm, Douglas Cockerell & Son, in 1935. There he perfected the art of making marbled paper using traditional materials. Cockerell’s popular papers were widely distributed in the United States during the 1960s and 1970s. Marbler William Chapman created the specimen shown in this pamphlet.
Source
Thomas J. Watson Library, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of Mary Schlosser