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Marble has a long place in history.
Now, Taschen is bringing this Enlightenment-era book back to life.
Taschen is adding one element to the book that wasn’t in the original.
The reprint features new photography to showcase the intricacies of marble samples.
The samples look like small vignettes of abstract art alongside an encyclopedic knowledge of marble.
The Book of Marbleis now available to order throughTaschenandBookshop.
Jan Christiaan Sepp, Marmor Soorten (1776)Marble of Württemberg (plate 21)© TASCHEN / Sächsische Landesbibliothek – Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek (SLUB), Dresden
The renowned publisher has printed the original text in its entirety.
The reprint features new photography to showcase the intricacies of marble samples.
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Jan Christiaan Sepp, Marmor Soorten (1776)Marble of Bayreuth (plate 13)© TASCHEN / Sächsische Landesbibliothek – Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek (SLUB), Dresden
Jan Christiaan Sepp, Marmor Soorten (1776)Marble elegantly varied by reddish, ash-colour and yellow spots, with milk-white large veins (plate 44, detail)© TASCHEN / Sächsische Landesbibliothek – Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek (SLUB), Dresden
Jan Christiaan Sepp, Marmor Soorten (1776)Additional marble types from the addendum of six plates, including emerald and lazulite (plate 97)© TASCHEN / Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles
Jan Christiaan Sepp, Marmor Soorten (1776)Marble of Switzerland, from the canton of Bern (plate 44)© TASCHEN / Sächsische Landesbibliothek – Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek (SLUB), Dresden
Jan Christiaan Sepp, Marmor Soorten (1776)Italian and antique marble (plate 74)© TASCHEN / Sächsische Landesbibliothek – Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek (SLUB), Dresden
Jan Christiaan Sepp, Marmor Soorten (1776)Confused intermixed marble, with flesh, ash-color, greenish and whitish clouds (plate 46, detail)© TASCHEN / Sächsische Landesbibliothek – Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek (SLUB), Dresden
