Limited to 2000 copies.
There are 970 items, all of which are illustrated with about 69 in color, arranged chronologically and those in series have been placed in their correct order. Brief notes on the artists, their style of work and environment, as well as on the development of the wood-block print in Japan, link each section. The name of the artist is also shown in Japanese characters. This is a lovely set in beautiful condition. xx, 349; v, 350-673; v, 674-1034 pages. cloth, dust jacket, slipcase. folio.
Illustration: 18 full pp. clrd. reproductions of orig. paintings with tissue guards.
Condition: Good+
Binding: 8.9×6.5”, pp.xii, 216, adverts [4]; full red cl. with elaborate dec. to cover and sp. with gilt peacock and tree in blue and pink, cover and sp. faded in parts, pp. sl. yellowed, edges sl. thumbed, teg.
or the ingredients of social life at “our station” in India. With Colour Illustrations for the first time form the original sketches of the author, kindly lent by the owner, Mr. Fredrick Palmer
Illustration: With full pp. colored prints with tissue guards, marginal foxing to pl. Margins, title pp.
Condition: Good.
Binding: 11.5×8”, unnumbered; orig. Brown rexine with heavy embossing in gilt, white title to cover, gilt title to spine with dec., dec. epps, edges thumbed, aeg, occasional foxing throughout.
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A diary in India; with some account of the visits of his Royal Highness to the courts of Greece, Egypt, Spain and Portugal
Illustration: A large number of full pp. as well as vignette woodcut engravings, full pp. with tissue guards, pasted sepia toned photo frontis., sl. foxing to pl. margins with little/no harm to pl.
Condition: Good.
Binding: 10.5×7”, pp. xxxix, 619; full red cl. with gilt crest to cover, gilt title to sp., aeg, edges thumbed, sp. ends frayed, gilt and black border to cover, black and red title pp.
Theophile Gautier and others. Translated from the French with an additional chapter upon the struggle for supremacy in the Far East by Florence Macintyre Tyson
Illustration: A large number of sepia and b/w photogravures with printed tissue guards.
Condition : Good+
Binding: 20.6×13.4cm, pp.Vol 1: viii, 483, Vol 2:viii, 461; full red cl. with elaborate gilt eagle to cover, gilt title to sp., sp. ends sl. frayed, teg, binding sl. loose.
Ceylon An Account Of The Island Physical, Historical, And Topographical With Notices Of Its Natural History, Antiquities And Productions
Illustration: A large number of wood engravings throughout in the form of vignettes, frontis., 2 double folding maps in Vol.II.
Condition: Very Good
Binding: 22x14cm, pp. xxxv, 619, xvi, 660; brown calf over marbled boards, sp. rebacked, 5 raised bands to sp. with gilt title to leather label, sp. chipped in parts and frayed.