SUBJECTS PORTRAYED IN JAPANESE COLOUR-PRINTS.
A collector's guide to all the subjects illustrated including an exhaustive account of the Chushingura and other famous plays, together with a causerie on the Japanese theatre. Illustrated with reproductions of over 270 prints from the author's collection and other sources: 22 in colour. Pp. xvi+382, 72 plates (9 coloured, with lettered guards, including the frontispiece, most plates with multiple images), the title page printed in red & black, addendum slip tipped-in before Contents page, glossary, appendices, index; cr. folio; later qr. grey cloth, with [the original?] gilt lettered & ruled black leather title label (slightly chipped) on spine, grey papered boards, small section of the cloth slightly browned on upper board near foot of spine; uncut; later endpapers, with bookplate of Charles E. McCulloch on upper pastedown, occasional small edge splits, a few leaves lightly creased; Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co., Ltd., London, 1922. First edition thus. *A completely revised version of the author's earlier Japanese Colour-Prints and the Subjects They Illustrate (1922). Item #159127
Price: $500.00