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Articles - August - 2018 Issue

Do You Love Endpapers? An Interview with Simon Beattie, from the "We Love Endpapers" Facebook group.

Example of "sprinkled paper", obtained by sprinkling some paint over some leaves of paper. "It was", Simon Beattie underlines, "quite popular in Germany, where it is known as 'Kiebitzpapier'".


Posted On: 2018-08-03 22:26
User Name: hermeticsurveyor

As an erstwhile artist I've always been captivated by the ep's I've encountered lo these 37 years as a bookdealer, but few dealers or collectors I've met cared much about anything but the rarest and most special. When I stumbled on Mr. Beattie's FB site I was thrilled to see the serious interest they deserve, it is one of the very few book sites I regularly visit. My problem with contributing some of mine there is I have no camera that does justice to them, and many ep's can't be scanned without cracking the hinge or causing binding stress, something I'm genetically incapable of doing.


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