Edo Meisho Zue Famous Sights in and about Tokyo

by Choshu Saito, Yukitaka Saito, Ghessin Saito, Hasegawa Settan

$8,000 · Offered by Burnside Rare Books

First edition

Tokyo: Suwaraya Ihachi, Tenpo 5- Tenpo 7, 1834 & 1836 . First edition. 14 of 20 volumes; lacking vols. 11,12, 14, 16, 17 and 20. Original publisher's blue wrappers with blind stamped pine branch decorations and paper title labels, later hand numbered in pencil in Arabic numerals. Printed from woodblocks on Japanese paper. With hundreds of lovely black and white woodcut illustrations, mostly double-page. About Very Good

• Binding: Wrappers

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