More Papers & Patterns

Making progress through the stack of papers for the new book. The sheet above bears the watermark of  William H. Colson, Boston, though the paper was made in France. This is the same c.1905 paper that Baskin used for Flosculi Sententarum!

 Today's effort: Crown & Sceptre...

Thinking up different more than 20 different patterns with our meager collection of flowers & ornaments is going to be a challenge. Most start by arranging sorts on the table, fleshing out a general idea, and then doing the actual setting. Here's the "sketch" for what was used on the BG Dover sheet. It had to be revised after a proof pull because two of the six large circles were damaged:

This is BG's Saunders Blue. We had exactly three full sheets from an old paper seller's sample collection...