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62 282 282. HILLIER, Jack. The Art of the Japanese Book. Sotheby’s. 1987. £498 folio 2 volumes in original cloth with dust wrappers, preserved in original slipcase. Illustrated with reproductions of over 900 prints. A fine set. first edition of Hillier’s magnum opus, the definitive work on the Japanese Book. This copy inscribed by Hillier to his son “for Bevis from his fond father. not the least of his benefactions”. 283. HOMMA, Takashi. Tokyo. New York, Aperture, 2008. £30 royal 8vo. (253 x 180 mm) photo-illustrated stiff card wrappers with flaps; 239, [1]pp., illustrated throughout with colour photos; fine. first edition. 283 284 284. [JAPAN.] A Japanese Lacquer photograph Album. c. 1890. £1,750 Oblong folio (approx. 14 x 10?”). Original lacquered boards, upper cover with image in gilt, colour and ivory onlays showing boatman ferrying a woman across a river, original morocco spine, gilt-ruled raised bands, a.e.g; containing 50 photographs, each approx. 206 x 265, the majority coloured, captioned in English and numbered in the negative; very slightly rubbed, one small chip to edge of upper board, some tissue-guards torn, else a splendidly preserved example of the genre, contained in a purpose-made cloth box (worn). This wonderful album and others like it were produced in Japan as souvenirs, the photographs being selected from the studio catalogue purposely for the album. The present excellent copy contains images of scenes at Yokohama (the railway station and a boys’ parade), Asakusa Tokyo, cherry blossom, iris gardens and maple trees in Tokyo, Enishima, temples at nikko and the Inland Sea, views at Hakone, another of Mount fuji, portraits of geishas, silk-weavers, rice-planting, a grocer’s shop, a street-dancer, and a group portrait of soldiers dressed in Samurai armour.
Henry Sotheran Limited 63 285. [JAPAN - PAPERMAKING]. [Tokyo celluloyd company Memorial Album]. [Tokyo, Taisho 8 i.e. 1919]. £148 Oblong 8vo. Original decorated cloth, ties; pp. [ii, text in Japanese] + 28 photographic plates + [iv, Japanese] text; some wear and soiling to cloth, internally very clean. An interesting photographic record of a paper-manufacturer established in Tokyo in 1917. Included are images of the laboratories, manufacturing facilities, dining hall and various company premises, as well as portraits of the company president and employees. The text and photograph captions are in Japanese. Industrial production of paper began in Kobe in 1872 and in the early c.20th demand for paper rose dramatically. 285 286. JAPAN. palaces Of Japan. Tokyo, 1928. £1,250 Oblong folio (267 x 372 mm), bound in jade green silk, with paper title label to the upper cover, gilt-flecked endpapers, preserved within the original hand-stencilled linen-backed chemise with ivory tags and a paper title label to its upper cover; 76 phototypes, frenchfolded, each with a leaf of descriptive text (Japanese); wear to the extremities of the chemise, a few dust marks on the covers, the book itself very bright and clean. A visual survey of the imperial palaces and offical residences in and around Tokyo. The images include many interiors and gardens. 286
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