Kyōka edo hanabi senryō 狂歌東都花日千両 A Thousand Flowers: Witty Poets on Three Popular Districts of Edo

by Hiroshige 歌川広重 Utagawa, Kuniyoshi 歌川国芳, Utagawa, Toyokuni san

$7,500 · Offered by Jonathan A. Hill Bookseller

First edition

25 finely color-printed double-page woodcuts. 25.5; 15; 21.5 folding leaves. Three vols. 8vo, orig. semi-stiff wrappers, orig. block-printed title-slips on upper covers, new stitching. Edo : 1853-54. First edition of this finely illustrated book, which rarely appears complete in all three volumes. The “Kyōka Edo Hanabi Senryō has sub-titles that show the sort of specialization that was associated with the three leading Utagawa artists. Volume

• Binding: Wrappers

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