Title
Decorated Book Papers: Being an Account of Their Designs and Fashions.
Coverage
Rosamond B. Loring.
Cambridge, MA:
Publisher
Department of Printing and Graphic Arts, Harvard College Library,
Date
1942
Description
This is an example of modern American printed paste paper made by Loring’s protégé, Veronica Ruzicka (1917-1981). Loring and Ruzicka both made the original paper samples in this book, an edition of 250 copies. Subsequent editions were issued in 1952, 1973, and 2007. Loring’s collection of decorated papers is in the Houghton Library at Harvard University. Ruzicka later made papers under the name Proteus Papers.
Source
Thomas J. Watson Library, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Gift of Jane E. Andrews in memory of her husband William Loring Andrews