Kokon tōa shifu 古今東亞紙譜 A Collection of East Asian Paper Samples from Ancient to Modern Times

by Yoshikuni 関義城 Seki

$15,000 · Offered by Jonathan A. Hill Bookseller

First edition

Hundreds of paper samples tipped-in & several text illus. 141; 121 pp. on folding leaves. Two vols. 8vo, orig. semi-stiff wrappers, woodcut title-slip on first vol. lacking on Vol. II , orig. stitching. Tokyo: Privately Printed , Prefaces dated 1957. First edition, limited to 100 numbered copies, luxuriously printed throughout on handmade paper, of this magnificent and rare paper specimen work. Seki 1892-1979 , an executive at a Japanese paper company,

• Binding: Wrappers

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