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[SKETCHTOUR BOOK] : JU^NIN SHASEI RYOKO^

[SKETCHTOUR BOOK]. JU^NIN SHASEI RYOKO^ Tokyo: Kashima Cho^jiro^ [Ko^bunsha], Meiji 44 [1911]. 5th printing of 1912. Printed paper over boards, cloth spine, gilt. Small 8vo., 19.3 x 12.8 cm. See Johnson's article in ANDON p. 15 for an extensive description of this book's importance. With 10 zincographs, 2 lithographs, 18 photo-lithographs and 4 color woodcuts, along with many halftones, both b+w and color. An important and interesting book, which centers on verbal and pictorial representations of the Inland Sea area. The artists (and authors) were Kawai Shinzo^, O^shita To^jiro^, Mitsutani Kunishiro^, Yoshida Hiroshi, Nakagawa Hachiro^, Kosugi Misei, Nakamura Fusetsu, Kanokogi Takeshiro^, Takamura Shimpu and Ishii Hakutei. The contents are slightly foxed. But overall this is a very good copy of this hard-to-find work., Very Good

[SKETCHTOUR BOOK] : JU^NIN SHASEI RYOKO^

[SKETCHTOUR BOOK]. JU^NIN SHASEI RYOKO^ Tokyo: Kashima Cho^jiro^ [Ko^bunsha], Meiji 44 [1911]. Printed paper over boards, cloth spine, gilt. Small 8vo., 19.3 x 12.8 cm. See Johnson's article in ANDON p. 15 for an extensive description of this book's importance. With 10 zincographs, 2 lithographs, 18 photo-lithographs and 4 color woodcuts, along with many halftones, both b+w and color. An important and interesting book, which centers on verbal and pictorial representations of the Inland Sea area. The artists (and authors) were Kawai Shinzo^, O^shita To^jiro^, Mitsutani Kunishiro^, Yoshida Hiroshi, Nakagawa Hachiro^, Kosugi Misei, Nakamura Fusetsu, Kanokogi Takeshiro^, Takamura Shimpu and Ishii Hakutei. The binding is a bit cocked. The contents very slightly foxed. But overall this is a very good copy of this hard-to-find work, here in the third impression, issued three months after the first. In the worn original decorated clamshell box., Very Good

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