Kokon shikishi no fu 古今色紙之譜 A Collection of East Asian Decorative Paper Samples from Ancient to Modern Times

by Yoshikuni 関義城 Seki

$9,500 · Offered by Jonathan A. Hill Bookseller

First edition · Signed

Hundreds of paper samples tipped-in, five plates of facsimiles, & 4 plates which serve as paste-down endpapers . 106; 130 pp. on folding leaves. Two vols. 8vo, orig. orange semi-stiff wrappers, woodcut title-slips on upper wrappers, orig. stitching. Tokyo: Privately Printed , colophon dated 1963. First edition, limited to 100 numbered copies, signed, luxuriously printed throughout on handmade paper, of this magnificent and rare decorative paper specimen

• Binding: Wrappers

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