<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paper_marbling" class="extiw" title="w:Paper marbling">Marbled</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endpaper" class="extiw" title="w:Endpaper">endpaper</a> from a copy of <i>Die Nachfolge Christi in vier Büchern von Thomas von Kempis. Uebersetzt und mittelst des geistlichen Kampfes von Scupuli und der Lebensgeschichte des Heiligen Gottes veranschaulicht und mit einer Einleitung vom heiligen Bonaventura erklärt, nebst einem Anhange der nothwendigsten Gebete von Ludwig Donin, Curaten an der Metropolitan-Kirche und Religionslehrer etc.</i> Vienna: Jakob Wallner’s Verlag [without date, probably about 1875, because Donin died in 1876 and is mentioned here like a living person]. Nice pocket edition (cover height about 13 cm).
Creator of the paper marbling unknown, but dead for more than 70 years; image scanned and sightly edited by <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Aristeas" title="User:Aristeas">Aristeas</a>.
circa 1875 <div style="display: none;">date QS:P,+1875-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902</div> (book printed)
Scanned by <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Aristeas" title="User:Aristeas">Aristeas</a> from his own copy of the book.