The Tale of Flowering Splendor

by Eiga Monogatari 栄花物語

$55,000 · Offered by Jonathan A. Hill Bookseller

First edition

1615-40. Printed in kanji hiragana. Eleven lines per page, 20-22 characters per line. 40 parts in 20 vols. 8vo 260 x 197 mm. , orig. semi-stiff blue wrappers a little rubbed, several upper covers with careful mending , early manuscript title slips on covers, new stitching. Japan : ca. Genna to mid-Kan’ei 1615-40 . First edition of the Eiga Monogatari The Tale of Flowering Splendor , a work entirely written by women see below .

• Binding: Wrappers

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