(Bird & Bull Press) Ramondini and Rizzi: A Chapter in Italian Decorated Paper History

$250.00

29. () Ramondini and Rizzi: A Chapter in Italian Decorated Paper History. By . Oak Knoll Books. New Castle, Delaware. 1990. 57p. 10” x 7.5”. Printed on heavyweight mouldmade Johannot paper by at the . Quarter bound by Campbell-Logan in maroon cloth and paste-paper printed sides based on a Ramondini design; title in gilt on leather spine label. Each copy contains 9 original samples of decorated papers and one large original sample of a “pictorial” paper. (Errata slip laid-in explaining why the colophon says an edition of 175 copies). One in an edition of 215 copies. Prospectus laid-in. Fine.

The work contains historical information on both firms, several illustrations of various woodblocks and engravings, 3-color facsimile of the charming 18th-century Ramondini woodcut Il Cane Barbino and a full size fold-out facsimile of the document which granted a virtual monopoly to Ramondini in 1765.

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