Marbling?

hhp

Uh? Maybe? Not sure, hence the 'question'.

isn't marbling a particular type of decoration/printing technique?

http://home3.pacific.net.sg/~johnacs/

i would just do for patterned/decorated endpapers

geraint

In Denmark those pages are called 'spejlet' (the mirror), but I don't think it translates like that...

And in Spain are called "guardas" (guards, custodians).

"endpapers" seems to ring a bell somewhere, far, far away.

I've always understood them to be called endpapers. I've never seen a gallery of them, but I would certainly like to.

Endpapers

Just FYI: There's a wonderful paper store in Los Angeles called McManus & Morgan that sells marbled and other hand-made papers. In a discussion about reproducing one his marbled papers the owner cautioned me that all the papers he sells are under copyright, owned by the individual makers.

And those paper makers will come after you too!. Years ago I used a piece of marble paper as a background for a cover design on a library magazine. I didn't realize the design of the marble paper was copyright protected. The artist contacted the magazine and we payed the artist for the usage.

Isn't it amazing that a piece of marble paper can be protected by copyright in the U.S., but a typeface design cannot. A typeface is too utilitarian, but marble paper not so.

Adrian Wilson's book, The Design of Books refers to endpapers. When the book is laid flat, the papers frame the page spread. They're a wonderful design element when chosen carefully.

>the design of the marble paper was copyright protected

I can understand that, because each piece of marbled paper is unique, and as such more art than design.

So, while one may not be able to copyright a typeface when it is considered as a vectored design, if an original piece of "real" artwork (ie one-off ink on paper drawing) exists of the individual characters, perhaps it can be argued that THOSE images are copyrightable, and therefore claim type copyrights by this argument....

I've heard the term 'pastedown' used too. IIRC, when 'pastedown' was used, it referred to the paper (or cloth) pasted to the book board. And the 'endpaper' was the first leaf.

Whoa, these typophile books idea is drop-dead amazing. How do the contributors add the images? Do they just pate them in???

Amazing. I love it.

Speaking of which... when are those 17 other �drop-dead amazing� books heading out the door?

endpapers it is then.

Grant: See the thread in Uppercase (sorry to lazy to link)