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Frederick William Gookin. Japanese Colour-Prints

Currency:USD Category:Books / Antiquarian & Collectible Start Price:70.00 USD Estimated At:150.00 - 250.00 USD
Frederick William Gookin. Japanese Colour-Prints
<B>Frederick William Gookin. </B></I><B><I>Japanese Colour-Prints and Their Designers</B></I></B></I><B>.</B></I> By Frederick William Gookin. A Lecture Delivered Before the Japan Society of New York. April 19, 1911. To Which is Appended a Catalogue of a Loan Collection of Japanese Colour-Prints Exhibited at the Fifth Avenue Building April 19 to May 19, 1911. Together with Reproductions of Representative Prints Included in the Exhibition. New York: The Japan Society, 1913. <BR><BR>Number 853 of 1000 copies. Folio. 52 pages. Twenty-four beautifully illustrated tipped-in color prints. <BR><BR>Publisher's light olive cloth shelfback over light olive boards. The front cover and spine are labeled in gilt. Bottom and fore-edges are not cut. Some rubbing and minor soiling to the covers, bumping to the corners and head and foot of the spine, small portions from both of the bottom corners are missing, some bowing to the boards, some toning to the endpapers and preliminary and concluding pages. Altogether a very good copy. <BR><BR>This elegant copy features handsome color prints and information on such designers as Harunobo, Moronobu, Kiyomasu, Masanobu, Kiyomitsu, Koryusai, Shunsho, Buncho, Kiyonaga, Shuncho, Eishi, Sharaku, Utamaro, Toyokuni, Hokusai, and Hiroshige.<BR><BR><b>Shipping:</b> Books & Catalogs (<a target="_blank" href="http://www.heritageauctions.com/common/shipping.php">view shipping information</a>)
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