
Papier dominoté [Colour-printed paper]
A large sheet of pictorial, colour-printed paper. [Ten repeated bands; each with flowers, separated by blue, whit-dotted lines].
[Bassano del Grappa, Remondini?, ca. 1800]. Folio sheet of wove paper measuring over 35 x 44 cm. Loose, as issued.
A finely coloured sheet of painted paper, or papier dominoté (French) or Buntpapier (German), probably meant as endpapers for folio-sized books, as it contains a repetitive illustration or pattern, based on repeating wood block printing, or rolled printing, occasionally finished by hand. Possibly the work of Remondini, a firm of print publishers based in Bassano del Grappa and active from the mid-17th century to 1860. The edges are uncut, as issued; weak vertical fold. Marginal fraying, some staining and soiling, a few short, marginal tears; otherwise very good, the printing colourful.