Album of Japanese Color Woodblock Designs and Illustrations
- Used
- Good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good
- Seller
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New York, New York, United States
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About This Item
String. Card thickness boards. . Good. N.d., circa mid-19th century. 4to. 25.5 by 18.5 cm. 15 leaves (with content), containing a total of 24 color plates. One page of Japanese text, and short captions in Japanese along side each plate. The graphics are consistently bold, varied though they are. Sometimes its from the metallic color, other times, the unusualness of the more abstract patterns, or the tweaking of perspective. The images range from figurative to abstract, with many have aspects of both, or falling somewhere in the middle on the spectrum. Subject matter takes in animals, flowers, waves, people, dragons, fan. With the immense range, it would be a daunting endeavor to capture all the imagery with any kind of economy of words. For us, a highlight is the semi-abstract elephant which the eye may alternatively see as a loosely realized landscape, or another with a winding away of five-sided letter chips which vanish in the distance. But really, it is the cumulative power of the image that impresses the most. Condition: heavy wear to the card stock binding. Moderate age toning to the leaves within. The few tissue guards are creased. Unknown whether originally other tissue guards within.
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Details
- Bookseller
- White Fox Rare Books and Antiques (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 005888
- Title
- Album of Japanese Color Woodblock Designs and Illustrations
- Format/Binding
- String. Card thickness boards.
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
Terms of Sale
White Fox Rare Books and Antiques
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged.
About the Seller
White Fox Rare Books and Antiques
Biblio member since 2010
New York, New York
About White Fox Rare Books and Antiques
By appointment. Antiquarian and rare books with strengths in illustrated plate books, the decorative arts, costume, sporting, foreign language literature (in the original language), with growing emphasis on early printing.
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