Antique Marbled Paper Covers with Cloth Bindings, Harvard University folk art heads This lovely art nouveau style

This lovely art nouveau style free hand “hearts and vines” iridescent glass vessel reminds me of the miraculous capacities of blown glass—what a tiny wonder

yielding a to my eye an ideal surface--scraped

clean and odor free

with not much record of him after the 1950s

and a little very minor staining

Antique Marbled Paper Covers with Cloth Bindings, Harvard University folk art heads This lovely art nouveau styleSo pretty. I'm forever oggling hand marbled paper covers on old books, but often less interested in the pages inside! These were once owned by Harvard University (the Museum of Comparative Zoology specifically) and held short published essays inside, but one is now stripped of all of them and the other holds just a couple of pages making the perfect now to use as portfolios of sorts, or as covers for other things, etc. Hand marbled paper over hard