In the second edition, I have given the results of my uninterrupted studies and the new observations I have made during the last five years. It is my hope not only, that I shall make the study easier to the inexperienced, but also to offer to the experienced marbler a practical compendium in cases of frequently arising difficulties.
The publisher of this new edition has added to it a number of samples, which were collected under my supervision and which certainly will be highly welcome.
I hope and wish that the new edition with its practical arrangement, with its description of my newest observations and with its tables of samples and the other additions and improvements, will find the approval of the trade and will increase the number of friends and patrons of the marbling art.
Budapest,
Very respectfully,
Josef Halfer.
October, 1890.