Author: KAWAURA, KEN-ICHI
Title: Album of Old Japanese Prints of the Ukiyo-Ye School
Description: 1919. (KAWAURA, Ken-ichi). ALBUM OF OLD JAPANESE PRINTS OF THE UKIYO-YE SCHOOL. Reproduced from the collection of Ken-ichi Kawaura. Tokyo: Yoshizawa & Co, 1919. #146 of 150 numbered copies. Folio-size, gold cloth-covered boards, bound Japanese-style; 6pp. list of plates + 425 items illustrated in b&w collotype + 5 (of 6) full-page wood engravings, 4 in color + 15pp. biography of artists. The original cloth-covered clasped chitsu case, with a paper title label, is present but split. This would be a nearly fine copy but for the one colorplate which has been excised; as it is, it is a lovely yet incomplete copy. .

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