Zoge chokokuho trans.: Technique of Ivory Carving & Sculpture

by Kuninosuke Soma, pen-name: Senrei

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First edition

Many woodcut illus. in the text. 45; 30 folding leaves. Large 8vo, orig. patterned wrappers, orig. block-printed title labels on upper covers, new stitching. Tokyo: Kinbe Yoshida, 1900. Second edition, enlarged the first edition of 1890, privately printed, is very rare , of this classic Japanese work on ivory carving. Kuninosuke Soma, whose pen-name was Senrei Soma, was one of the leading ivory carvers of his time see Encyc. Brit. . George Frederick

• Binding: Wrappers

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