Lot n° 478
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- Lot 478
Frank BRINKLEY - Japan described and illustrated by the Japanese, written by eminent Japanese Authorities and Scholars. With an essay on Japanese art by Kakuzo OKAKURA. Section I [- II].
Boston, J. B. Millet Company, 1897. 2 volumes (of 10) in-folio (402 mm), publisher's red and green silk brocade binding (headpieces and corners dulled).
vii, 34, [2]; [4 (title and justification), pp. 35-74, [2] pp. This series appeared in 15 sections. Sections I & II are available.
EXAMPLE OF THE LUXURY EDITION, PRINTED ON JAPAN, LIMITED TO 50 NUMBERED COPIES (no. 8).
I: coloured frontispiece on velvet depicting Fusiyama seen from the coast by GIOKUSHU (tear in the paper serpente bearing the notice), black etching vignette to the title, a coloured collotype depicting flowers, headband and some initials, 20 small coloured plates pasted into the text, 6 large coloured plates matted in different colours and each preceded by a notice on paper of the same colour. Mount Fuji, the bronze Buddha in Kamakura, jinrikishas, Buddhist monks, dancers, a reproduction of a wooden sculpture representing a fisherman giving death to an octopus. At the end, a painting from the Nara period.
II: an original watercolor illustrated with fishes by BEISHU as a frontispiece, a colored collotype illustrated with flowers, 20 small colored pictures pasted in the text, 6 large colored pictures matted in different colors and each preceded by a notice printed on paper of the same color: Itinerant flower sellers, fisherwomen, the Arashiyama bridge near Kyoto, a young girl dressing a doll (small tear to the matting), the yomei-mon gate of the Ieyasu temple in Nikko, a wooden carving of the yomei-mon gate in Nikko and a reproduction of a painting by the Kose School (tear and missing tissue paper serpente). Some minor marginal foxing.
With the two flyers, instructing the reader not to cut the leaves. Cordier, BJ, col. 636.
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