The Progress of the Marbling Art, from Technical Scientific Principles / With a Supplement on the Decoration of Book Edges

FROM TECHNICAL SCIENTIFIC PRINCIPLES
BY JOSEF HALFER
WITH A SUPPLEMENT ON THE DECORATION OF BOOK EDGES
Translated by Herman Dieck, Philadelphia
BUFFALO, N. Y.: THE AMERICAN BOOKBINDER CO. 1894.
Copyright, 1893, By LOUIS H. KINDER.

No product finds so many and ample applications as color. Nearly every trade requires it for the decoration of its products so as to adapt them more generally and pleasantly to the present demands.
The art of marbling is that branch of our trade, in which color is brought into use for the decoration of bindings, yet it has not found the desirable general introduction into our book-binderies because practical men have not so intently employed their time and endeavors, to overcome the difficulties, which resist its general application.
Who could solve easier and more correctly than the mechanics, to whom these difficulties and obstacles offer themselves in practice? He is the only one to find the remedy, scientific men not possessing sufficient technical knowledge. Only he is ready and able to stand up for such special trades, to work and to fight for them, who is himself interested and who not only learned to understand the art of marbling from former instructions and traditions, but from his own practical experience.
To him only, will it be possible to gain by close study true points, on which to further develop the whole subject.