这本精彩而又美丽的书汇集了从16世纪到20世纪的一系列装饰纸张。它们的生产用途广泛：作为书籍的包装和卷首及卷尾，作为扑克牌的背景，甚至是金属箱和箱子的衬里。一些装饰纸被用在教堂和家里作为简陋照片展示;有些是作为纪念品卖给朝圣者的;而其他的则仅仅是用来包装诸如姜饼和巧克力之类的食品。书中所有的文章都是由它们的华丽的装饰和原始纸张的薄而灵活的特点所组成的。这些纸张由奥尔加赫希（1889-1968）所收集，她是一个经验丰富的装订商，她把她收藏的3500份纸张留给了大英图书馆。本书汇集了一些最精致的例子。它会让设计师、爱书者和任何对图案和装饰感兴趣的人感到高兴和受鼓舞。

This remarkable and beautiful book brings together a collection of decorated papers dating from the 16th to the 20th century. They were produced for a wide variety of uses: as wrappers and endpapers for books, as the backing for playing cards, and even as linings for chests and cases. Some decorated papers were used as humble pictures for display in churches and the home; some were sold as souvenirs to pilgrims; and others were used merely as wrappings for foodstuffs such as gingerbread and chocolate. What unites all the papers in the book is the richness of their ornamentation and the thin, flexible characteristics of the original sheets. They are all further united by having been collected by Olga Hirsch (1889–1968), a trained bookbinder who left her collection of some 3,500 papers to the British Library, where they remain one of the largest and most diverse collections of decorated papers in the world. This anthology brings together some of the most exquisite examples. It will delight and inspire designers, bibliophiles and anyone with a love of pattern and decoration.

Table of Contents

Introduction • Marbled Papers • Paste Papers • Brocade Papers • Block-Printed Papers • Mass-Produced Papers • Miscellaneous Techniques