Subjects Portrayed in Japanese Colour-Prints.

(Japan.) STEWART (Basil)

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. Illustrated with Reproductions of over 270 prints from the Author's Collection and Other Sources: 22 in Colour.

Description: FIRST EDITION, 63 plates with numerous illustrations of works from the author's collection, 22 of these colour-printed and with captioned tissue-guards, title-page printed in black and red, a few faint spots to opening and terminal leaves, pp. xvi, 382, folio, original quarter beige cloth with blue boards, backstrip lettered in gilt on a blue leather label, device stamped in blind to upper board, edges untrimmed and slightly spotted, endpapers spotted, dustjacket with plate laid down to front panel, a waterstain to backstrip panel and a little ragged at extremities, very good

Publication Details: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner, 1922

Notes: A revision and enlargement of the author's 1920 book on the subject, which is, Stewart's Preface clarifies, 'virtually a new work, [...] constituting a catalogue raisonné of all the most notable prints of Ukiyoye produced during the polychrome period'.Scarce in the dustjacket

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Price: £200

Subject: Art & Architecture

Published Date: 1922

Stock Number: 73420

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