Japan: A History in Art

by Bradley Smith

$250 · Offered by James Cummins Bookseller · No longer available

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First printing. Number 495 of 500 Presentation Copies, signed by the Author. Profusion of color illustrations. 295 pp. 1 vols. 4to. Bound in pure-silk brocade woven to order by the Joshi Looms in Kyoto. The devices in gold are family crests of japanese feudal lords & hereditary nobility. The endpapers suggest the texture of old Japanese gold screens. The box was made by hand of Paulownia Wood in the workshop of the master cabinet maker Kokichi Endo of

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