'Unrivalled' Combed Marbling

Above: Endpaper from Wits & Beaux of Society c. 1880's Wharton Biographies

Above 1869 endpaper (Book unknown). 

Above: Modern version by Mme Marie-Anne Hamaide

Known as: 'Unrivalled', 'Peigné Droit' or 'Kamm', this pattern is related to the Wide comb (Arch) pattern as well as the Old Dutch pattern. All are variations of one another and are often mistaken for each other. The major differences are very difficult to pinpoint, but seem to stem from the size of intervals the last comb's teeth are set in. 

The pattern is created when the desired colours are dropped sequentially onto the bath using some sort of implement to regulate the drop sizes. According to Muira a comb with one set of teeth set at intervals of 15-30mm is drawn through the bath horizontally, once in either direction with the second pass halving the first. Then another comb with teeth set at 2-3 mm is drawn once across the bath vertically (or horizontally).

Above: Byron's Poetry book of 1859