Kyosai Gadan Kyosai's Treatise on Painting

by Kyosai Kawanabe, Kawanabe Toiku, Pseudonym

$3,000 · Offered by Burnside Rare Books

First edition

Tokyo : Self-published , Meijo 20 1887 . First edition of the renowned Meiji artist's memoir and treatise. Four volumes, unpaginated, profusely illustrated in color and black and white. Text in Japanese and English. Stab bound in publisher's printed wrappers, paper title labels. Very Good with at least one tiny bore hole through each volume and more visible worming to covers and first and last few pages. Cord coming loose

• Binding: Wrappers

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