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Book Condition: Used Near fine
Seller: Swan's Fine Books

United States
About Item: San Francisco: The Book Club of California [printed at the Grabhorn Press], 1965. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Near fine. Utamaro, Kitagawa. One of 450 copies, folio size, [36] pp., with prospectus. The Book Club of California's publication for Christmas 1965. Presents the pictures of Kitagawa Utamaro (1783-1806), an eighteenth-century Japanese artist that dealt with the process of silk culture, and the handiwork of women who were responsible for all aspects of making silk. The images together form one continuous composition, and are known as the "Silkworm Series". This is the fourth and final book in the "Grabhorn Japanese Print Series", which are regarded as the "crowning achievement" of the Club's publication program. ___DESCRIPTION: Quarter parchment with green and light-green decorated paper boards, title in gilt to backstrip, title-page in black, green and yellow, opening initial letter of the introductory essay in green and yellow, twelve numbered plates (not included in pagination) in… Read More
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