Subjects Portrayed in Japanese Colour-Prints: A Collector's Guide to all the Subjects Illustrated Including an Exhaustive Account of the Chushingura and other Famous Plays, Together with a Causerie on the Japanese Theatre. Cet article n’est pas disponible.Subjects Portrayed in Japanese Colour-Prints: A Collector's Guide to all the Subjects Illustrated Including an Exhaustive Account of the Chushingura and other Famous Plays, Together with a Causerie on the Japanese Theatre

Large fol. (39cm x 26cm). Publisher's pale tan half cloth over plain grey boards. Blind embossed chrysanthemum device to front board. Gilt titles to spine label. Rough trimmed leading and lower page edges. Over 270 prints, with 22 in colour. Tissue guarded colour frontis. xvi, 382, inc bibliography, publishers' seals and artists' signatures. Plates tissue guarded. Previous bookseller's note to flyleaf, stating rebacked and resewn, although if so, hard to tell. Offsetting to flyleaf and rear endpaper. Minor wear to tips, a few marks to boards, otherwise a fine copy. A monumental study, often reprinted.