Tanrokubon Rare Books of Seventeenth-Century Japan

Study of Japanese 17th-Century illustrated books, which employed both printing (woodblocks), and hand-colouring, primarily in orange-red and mineral green; The Art of Tanrokubon Illustrations, Tanrokubon as Literature, The Term Tanrokubon, Tanrokubon Illustrations and Synopses of the Texts; includes an Illustrated Catalogue of Extant Tanrokubon Editions, notes, glossary, and select bibliography; blue boards with orange-red, mineral-green and yellow motifs to front, and titling to spine in same colours; Japanese pocket binding, illustrated endpapers; in printed, illustrated slipcase; First Edition stated; Very Good tight and clean throughout; slipcase lightly rubbed and sunned, o.w. Very Good.