Krefft, Gerard. Catalogue of the mammalia in the collection of…
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Krefft, Gerard. Catalogue of the mammalia in the collection of the Australian Museum. Sydney, 1864. Small octavo, pp.[iv], 134, [ii], with the signature of the naturalist Charles French senior and the pencilled initials of W.Baldwin Spencer, old marbled wrappers, disbound. With, Krefft, Two papers on the vertebrata of the Lower Murray and Darling and on the snakes of Sydney, Sydney, 1865, pp.60 in modern calf. Both rare.

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  • Marbling - A descriptive term for a finish applied to plastic, ceramics, glass, plaster or wood to imitate the colours and characteristic markings of various marble types. For moulded items such as the first three above, the marbling is within the item.

    Interiors and furniture were marbled from from the early 17th century to the late Victorian period. The craft was practiced by skilled decorators using a combination of brushes and sponges. Some of the finishes achieved were so realistic as to make it difficult to distinguish the marbled surface from the marble surface.

    Marbling is also a term applied to a finish for paper as often seen in the front and endpapers of old books. The marbling is achieved by floating the colours on water and then transferring them to paper. However the marbling finish on paper, as with the marbling finish on plastics, with its multitude of colours has little resemblance to naturally occurring marble.

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