A fine collection of 64 kamigata kabuki ebanzuke 上方歌舞伎絵番付 “Osaka kabuki playbills”

by Kamigata Playbills

$8,500 · Offered by Jonathan A. Hill Bookseller

64 playbills, all with block-printed & color-stencilled kappazuri 合羽摺 covers, all composed of three or four leaves, block-printed throughout with full-page illus. Small 4to ca. 185 x 135 mm. , each self-bound. Osaka: ca. 1808?-80? A remarkable survival: a collection of 64 extremely rare kabuki playbills from the historical theater district of Osaka. These playbills all have three or four leaves, and their covers are color-printed using

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