Our cataloguer working on the library of the Canonesses of the Holy Sepulchre gets to see some amazing marbled endpapers – like these!
The first is from CHS 325 (1769). The second is from CHS 339 (1765) – but we think that the marbled endpapers could from much later in the 1800s
ALT CHS 325 Marbled Endpapers: Marbled endpapers in swirls of blue, red, yellow, and green, with white splodges throughout.
ALT CHS 339 Marbled Endpapers 1: Marbled endpapers in swirls of black, green, reddish purple, and cross-hatched black and white splodges.
ALT CHS 339 Marbled Endpapers and Bookplate: Marbled endpapers in swirls of black, green, reddish purple, and cross-hatched black and white splodges with a bookplate with black double-barred cross and text beneath reading “Written in the Catalogue of the Holy Sepulchre, New Hall”.