Papier dominoté [Colour-printed paper]
A large, colour-printed sheet.
[Bassano del Grappa, Remondini, ca. 1800]. Large, folio sheet of wove paper, oblong (36.2 x 45.5 cm). Loose, as issued.
A finely coloured sheet of printed and painted paper, or papier dominoté (French) or Buntpapier (German), probably meant as endpapers for folio-sized books. Wood block printing in green and red, on paper dyed yellow. Most probably the work of Remondini, a firm of print publishers based in Bassano del Grappa and active from the mid-17th century to 1860. Weak vertical fold (as often). Except for the bottom edge, the edges are uncut, as issued. Some marginal fraying and wrinkling, apparently caused by dying the paper, otherwise excellent: the printing strong.
