Hiroshige

A$950 · Offered by Douglas Stewart Fine Books

Limited edition

Sydney : privately printed at the Beacon Press, 1938. Limited to 200 copies signed and numbered by the author, this is copy 156. Small quarto, quarter-vellum over gilt-lettered boards, illustrated endpapers, pp 45, [1] colophon, illustrated with 20 chuban woodcut prints after Hiroshige, tipped in (some ghosting from the glue as usual); a near fine copy, in glassine jacket and original box (edges split). A fine private press book from P. Neville Barnett, published in Sydney just prior to the Second World War, and one of a series of studies on Japanese woodcut artists. Favourable comment was made by a critic at the time on the apt choice of the Locarno fonts and the quality of the Worthy paper (Kraal, Diane. From Chatswood to Edo : The Life and Books of P. Neville Barnett , p. 42).

• Binding: Hardcover

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