Rosamond B. Loring

Rosamond Bowditch Loring (May 2, 1889 – September 17, 1950) was an author, bookbinder, and collector and historian of decorated papers.[1][2] She worked as the librarian for The Club of Odd Volumes from 1936 through 1949[2]: 39  and a member of Hroswitha Club from 1944 until her death.

Loring originally started with book arts through bookbinding, but soon found it was difficult to get quality decorated papers and so began to create both marble and paste papers at her home.[2]: 39  She collected and categorized decorated papers and endpapers into several categories: "Paste, Marble, Early Printed, Modern Printed, Douglas Cockerell, Oriental, her own papers, book covers, Ingeborg Börjesson, W.C. Doebbelin, and Modern Pictorial Endpapers."[3] Her collection was sought after by both librarians and book publishers and collectors.[2]: 36 [4] Her first published work, Marbled Paper, its History, Techniques and Patterns, grew out of a talk she had given to The Club of Odd Volumes in 1932.[5] In 1942, the Department of Printing and Graphic Arts of the Harvard Library published her book Decorated Book Papers, illustrated with specimens of original papers, in a limited edition printing.[2]: 36 

After her death in 1950, exhibits of her collections took place at the Boston Athenaeum and Boston University. Her library of paper sample books, books about decorated paper, and books containing examples of decorated papers have been collected in the archives of Houghton Library.[3]

Personal life

Loring was the great-granddaughter of Nathaniel Bowditch.[6] Her parents were Alfred Bowditch and Mary Louise Rice.[2]: 36  She grew up in the Moss Hill section of the Jamaica Plain neighborhood in Boston, Massachusetts.[7] She was married to Augustus Peabody Loring, Jr. on June 22, 1911 and the couple had five daughters and two sons.[2]: 38 [8][9] They lived in Back Bay in Boston, Massachusetts from 1919 until their deaths in the 1950s.[10][11]

Bibliography
  • Marbled papers (1933)
  • Decorated Book Papers (1942)
  • Life Here a Century Ago: A Memoir of Moss Hill (1950)
  • Marbled and Paste Papers: Rosamond Loring's Recipe Book [facsimile ed.] (2007)

References
  1. "Collection: Rosamond B. Loring collection of printed endpapers". HOLLIS for. 2021-01-28. Retrieved 2021-01-28.
  2. Whitehill, Walter Muir (2020-06-10). Analecta biographica; a handful of New England portraits. Internet Archive. Retrieved 2021-01-28.
  3. "Collection: Rosamond B. Loring collection of decorated papers". HOLLIS for. Retrieved 2021-01-28.
  4. Thompson, Lawrence Sidney (2020-06-10). Books in our time. Internet Archive. Retrieved 2021-01-28.
  5. "MARBLED PAPERS by Rosamond Bowditch Loring on Oak Knoll". Oak Knoll. 1932-11-16. Retrieved 2021-01-28.
  6. D'Agostino, Kristin (2009-03-24). "Writers, readers to converge at Salem's literature festival". Times Reporter. Retrieved 2021-01-28.
  7. "Moss Hill Memoir". Jamaica Plain Historical Society. 2004-03-01. Retrieved 2021-01-28.
  8. "Bowditch-Loring Family Papers, 1762-1940". Massachusetts Historical Society. Retrieved 2021-01-28.
  9. "History". Loring, Wolcott & Coolidge. 2019-06-18. Retrieved 2021-01-28.
  10. "81 Marlborough". Back Bay Houses. 2013-07-23. Retrieved 2021-01-28.
  11. "404 Beacon (2 Gloucester)". Back Bay Houses. 2013-07-09. Retrieved 2021-01-28. {{cite web}}: Cite uses generic title (help)
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