Block Printing & Book Illustration in Japan (1924) was one of the first guides to Japanese illustration, and remains indispensable to this day. The author travelled widely in Japan, persuading Japanese collectors to open their archives to her for study, and here compiles a wealth of unique research.
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Block Printing & Book Illustration in Japan (1924) was one of the first guides to Japanese illustration, and remains indispensable to this day. The author travelled widely in Japan, persuading Japanese collectors to open their archives to her for study, and here compiles a wealth of unique research.
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Add this copy of Block Printing and Book Illustration in Japan to cart. $245.00, very good condition, Sold by Waugh Books rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Lawrence, KS, UNITED STATES, published 1924 by George Routledge and Sons.
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Very good. Folio. Original quarter cream cloth and green boards, with gilt stamped spine lettering (over brown label). 261 pages, with Glossary, Bibliography, and Indices of Titles and Artists. With forty-three plates (eighteen in color with tissue guards). Wear to spine ends and corners, Scattered foxing throughout, especially to preliminary and end pages. Hand-stamp name (small) at bottom of Front FEP. Bookseller sticker [Thomas Nickerson Books, Honolulu] at bottom of inside rear cover. No marks to text. Hinges solid. Lacking the dust-jacket. Due to size and weight, international shipping at cost.
Add this copy of Block Printing & Book Illustration in Japan to cart. $250.00, good condition, Sold by Jeffrey Marks Rare Books, ABAA rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Rochester, NY, UNITED STATES, published 1924 by George Routledge & Sons.
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Hinges cracked (but still sound); quite rubbed at edges and corners; joints starting; a good copy, internally clean. xiii, 261 pp. With forty-three plates (eighteen in colours), and copious indexes of titles and artists. Folio,