Ehon misaogusa 絵本節操草 Illustrated Book of Chaste Women

by Harunobu 鈴木春信 Suzuki, artist

$3,750 · Offered by Jonathan A. Hill Bookseller

First edition

15 double-page & 2 single-page woodcuts, all in black & white. 8; 9.5 folding leaves. Two vols. 8vo, orig. decorated semi-stiff wrappers, title-slips, new stitching. Edo: Yamazaki Kinbei 山崎金兵衛, 1778. First edition of this posthumously published ōraimono textbook of rules of conduct for women, finely illustrated by Suzuki Harunobu 1724-70 , “the best known and most respected today of Shigenaga’s pupils, particularly in the

• Binding: Wrappers

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