This week’s #Fore Edge Friday example is a 3-volume set of The Poetical Works of William Cowper printed in Chiswick by Charles Whittingham for the London publisher William Pickering in 1843. The volumes are bound in gold-tooled and stamped calf skin and all edges and endpapers are marbled in what is called a Nonpareil pattern.Â
According to the University of Washington’s site on Patterned Papers, the “ pattern is created when the desired colors are dropped sequentially onto the bath using some sort of implement to regulate the drop sizes. . . . a comb with one set of teeth set at intervals of 15-30mm is drawn through the bath horizontally, once in either direction with the second pass halving the first. Then another comb with teeth set at 2-3 mm is drawn once across the bath vertically (or horizontally).”
As we have mentioned before, when marbling the edges of a book, the text block is clamped tightly shut, and once dipped, the excess fluid is blown or shaken off quickly to prevent it from running into the book. Once dry, the marbled edges are burnished.
The publisher William Pickering thought of himself as a modern-day Aldus Manutius because of his well-printed (thanks to the Whittinghams’ Chiswick Press), pocket-sized, and carefully-edited editions. Pickering even used Aldus’s famous anchor and dolphin printer’s mark with the Latin phrase Aldi Discip Anglus (the English Disciple of Aldus), as can be seen here on the title page. This set forms part of Pickering’s famous 57-volume series “The Aldine Edition of the British Poets.” Our Cowper set is a second edition, the first being published in 1830. The engraved frontispiece portrait of William Cowper is by Henry Robinson.Â
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