Mr. Gladstone's Washi. A Survey of Reports on the Manufacture of Paper in Japan. The Parkes Report of 1871

by Hans Schmoller

$350 · Offered by Jonathan A. Hill Bookseller · No longer available

Three folding plates, full-page color reproductions of 20 Japanese watercolors depicting papermaking, facsimiles on Japanese paper of 30 woodcut illus., & a separate suite of color plates in a portfolio. Large 8vo, orig. red morocco-backed boards, gilt, morocco spine label, slipcase. Newtown: Bird & Bull Press, 1984.Limited to 500 numbered copies printed on mouldmade Hahnemühle paper in Van Dijck types. In the late 1860s, at the behest of Prime

• Binding: Leather

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