Re: Blue-Grey Paper Color

[Janice Matthiesen <janicem@library.ucla.edu>]

The copy you describe can be found in the Ahmanson-Murphy Aldine Collection 
at UCLA.

Janice Matthiesen
Rare Book Cataloger
Young Research Library
UCLA



--On Friday, July 23, 2004 1:16 PM -0700 Sam Gatteño 
<sgatteno@worldnet.att.net> wrote:

> There was an Aldine Vergil (1514) on blue paper that was sold at Lionel
> Robinson's sale in 1986.  According to the catalogue entry, it was the
> Pembroke copy and the binding was French seventeenth-century mottled calf.
> Best
> Sam Gatteño
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Gabriel Austin" <gabrielaustin@earthlink.net>
> To: "Multiple recipients of list" <exlibris@library.berkeley.edu>
> Sent: Friday, July 23, 2004 10:52 AM
> Subject: RE: Blue-Grey Paper Color
>
>
> > But there are some "fancy" editions printed on blue paper. As a matter
> > of fact, I am still trying to verify the existence of an Aldine Virgil
> > in a Grolier binding printed on papier bleu sold in a Paris sale in the
> > 1930s. [Sorry, my list of G bindings is downstairs & I am too relaxed in
> > the garden on a cool sunny morning].
> > Gabriel Austin
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: exlibris@library.berkeley.edu
> > [mailto:exlibris@library.berkeley.edu] On Behalf Of Ron Lieberman
> > Sent: Friday, July 23, 2004 8:26 AM
> > To: Multiple recipients of list
> > Subject: Re: Blue-Grey Paper Color
> >
> > Though there are some variations in quality and color - similar papers
> > were used in the U.S. especially as wrappers or binding material.
> >
> > > I've catalogued numerous French pamphlets and some English pamphlets
> > (and
> > > it does always seem to be pamphlets and mostly late 18th century)
> > printed
> > > on this "cadet blue" paper as I have seen it listed.
> > >
> > > The quality of the paper is not very good.
> >
> > Ron
> >
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