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- Rosamond Bowditch Loring (May 2, 1889 – September 17, 1950) was an author, bookbinder, and creator, collector and historian of decorated papers. She worked as the librarian for The Club of Odd Volumes from 1936 through 1949 and was a member of the 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 marbled and paste papers at her home. 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." Her collection was sought after by librarians, book publishers and collectors. Her first published work, Marbled Paper, grew out of a talk she had given to The Club of Odd Volumes in 1932. 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. After her death in 1950, exhibits of her collections were held 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 at Harvard where she had been an honorary curator of the Department of Graphic Arts. The library has reorganized the collections: two major components are the Rosamond B. Loring Collection of Decorated Papers, containing over 10,000 samples, and the Rosamond B. Loring Collection of Printed Endpapers. (en)
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