Description

Folio size, tan cloth spine with brown morocco label. xiv+262 pp. (last blank), 43 plates (two with 2 images, 18 colored). With forth-three plates (eighteen in color), and extensive indexes of titles and artists. Preliminary pages printed in red and black, glossary, bibliography, indices. 

Condition

Ink spots on pages 140 and 141. Small raised embossed stamp on upper-right tip of title page (Christ's Hospital Library Horsham) with no other library marks. Else very good or better.

About this book

Covers block printing and book Illustration in Japan from the earliest period to modern times. Includes suggestions for collectors, lists of old book shops in Japan, index, glossary. and bibliography.