— Marbled Notebook from Compton Marbling

Wiltshire, Compton Marbling, c2000. Cloth. A very smart notebook or sketchbook from Compton Marbling, a Wiltshire based paper design company. A charming marbled notebook, journal, or sketchbook, measuring between the A4 and A5 sizes. With approximately ninety plain pages. Compton Marbling began making hand-marbled paper and products in the early 1970s. The founder, Solveig Stone, was inspired by an exhibition of marbled papers by Douglas Cockerell, a British bookbinder and author. Since then, each sheet of their marbled paper is made individually, by hand, using traditional methods that date back many centuries. Each range is a limited-edition run designed in their studio in Wiltshire. Compton marbling also supply a select range of hand-marbled papers to bookbinders, conservationists and furniture restorers and interior designers around the world. In the original half cloth with marbled boards. Externally, excellent. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright and clean throughout. Fine . Ill.: Not Stated. Fine .