Japanese colour-prints

A$2,000 · Offered by Douglas Stewart Fine Books

Limited edition

Sydney : Privately printed [by The Beacon Press], 1936. Standard de luxe edition limited to 185 numbered and signed copies, with the author s seal (this is copy no. 144). Large quarto, quarter vellum over cloth boards (browned and foxed), upper board curiously without the gilt lettering and device in red, spine lettered in gilt with gilt rule, decorated endpapers, Adrian Feint signed bookplate for W. R. Griffiths to front pastedown, pp 109, [1] blank, [1] index, [1] blank], [1] colophon, [1] other works by the author, [4] blank, illustrated with [94] tipped-in colour plates, some foxing and off-setting (as usual), a good copy. Scarce.

• Binding: Hardcover

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