Chokusen meisho waka shoshutsu 勅撰名所和歌抄出 Imperially Chosen Collection of Famous Place Names Codified for Waka Poetry

by Soseki, Pen-name: Gessonsai Soseki

$47,500 · Offered by Jonathan A. Hill Bookseller

First edition

Ten columns per page with interlinear printing in a smaller font. Text-block: 233 x 160 mm. 85; 88 folding leaves. Two vols. Large 8vo 280 x 198 mm. , orig. persimmon-stained wrappers, orig. block-printed title labels on upper covers, new stitching. Kyoto? : mid-Genna before 1617? . First edition, extremely rare, with no copy in WorldCat, of this masterpiece of movable wood type printing, exhibiting both kanji, in three font sizes and

• Binding: Wrappers

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