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Imprint: 1962 DELLA SANTA, Elisabeth. LES VASES PERUVIENS. De la collection de LL. MM. le Roi Albert et la Reina Elisabeth de Belgique. Bruxelles: Musees Royaux d'Art et d'Histoire, 1962. Text in French. Wrappers. Very good. Art., Very Good Stock number: 68614.
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Imprint: 1841 DENDY, Walter Cooper. THE PHILOSOPHY OF MYSTERY. London: Longman, Orme, Brown, Green, & Longmans, 1841. First edition. xii + 443 pp. 8vo., calf with raised bands, gilt spine ornament (spine label missing). 1 1/2 inch chip to top of spine. Front board detached. Boards worn,. Marbled edges to match endpapers. Armorial bookplate of Henry, Lord Langdale. Block tight. Memory, dreams, mythology, demonology, spectral illusions, mysterious forms and signs, spectres, more. As is. Stock number: 82449.
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Imprint: 1913 DENIZOT, Alfred. FOUCAULTISCHE PENDEL UND DIE THEORIE DER RELATIVEN BEWEGUNG. Leipzig und Berlin: B. G. Teubner, 1913. 19 text illustrations. [4],76 pp. 8vo., yellow paper wrappers, with t.p. information printed to upper wrapper. Internally clean. Light dust- soiling to wrappers, mostly at perimeters, and mild edgewear; small amount of paper residue (perhaps from a label?) to upper wrapper. Stock number: 68598.
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Imprint: 1915 DENNY, Melcena Burns. THE BOOK OF BABY MINE. (Grand Rapids, Michigan: The Simplicity Company), 1915. Verse and color decorations by Melcena Burns Denny. 94pp. 8vo., leather over paper. Leather shows minor rubbing. Erasure to front pastedown. First 3 leaves show dampstaining to upper fore-corner, else clean within. A charming volume. Very good., Very Good Stock number: 77006.
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Imprint: 1947 DENNY, Margaret. THE ROYAL SOCIETY AND AMERICAN SCHOLARS. Reprinted from The Scientific Monthly, Vol. LXV, No. 5, Nov. 1947. Inscribed by the author for Samuel Eliot Morison. 8vo., stapled blue wrappers; 13 pp. Just slight wear and a few pencil notations. Very good., Very Good Stock number: 65769.
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Imprint: 1921 (DENTISTRY). PROFESSIONAL DENTURE SERVICE. Vol. II. By George Wood Clapp and Russell Wilford Tench. New York: The Dentists Supply Co., 1921. Crown 8vo., red cloth. A very good copy that shows only light rubbing at the spine ends., Very Good Stock number: 46664.
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Imprint: 1988 (DePAOLA, Tomie). TOMIE DePAOLA'S BOOK OF POEMS. New York: Putnam's, (1988). Advance copy, being the unbound sheets and the dust jacket. Fine. A nicely chosen anthology, with DePaola's great color pictures., Fine. Illustr: FEA Stock number: 85161.
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Imprint: 1978 DEPARTMENT OF THE ARMY, CHINA: AN ANALYTICAL SURVEY OF LITERATURE. 1978 edition. 4to., white wrappers printed in red, 231 pp., several pockets of maps and diagrams to the rear. Lightly soiled and very lightly edgeworn. Very good plus. Military, East Asian., Very Good Stock number: 55688.
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Imprint: 1931 DEPARTMENT OF GAME AND FRESH WATER FISH, ed. FLORIDA BIRDS. Biographies of Selected Species of Birds and Compiled List of All Species Occurring in Florida. Quarterly Bulletin of the Department of Agriculture, July, 1931. Volume 41, Number 3. Tallahassee, FL: Department of Game and Fresh Water Fish, 1931. Wrappers. Ex-library. Illustrated in color. Very good., Very Good Stock number: 70215.
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Imprint: 1908 DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE AND LABOR. HEADS OF FAMILIES AT THE FIRST CENSUS OF THE UNITED STATES TAKEN IN THE YEAR 1790, MASSACHUSETTS. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1908. First edition thus. Illustrated with folding map. 363 pp. 4to., blue cloth printed to spine in gilt. Near fine with minor wear to spine and boards., Fine Stock number: 56925.
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Imprint: 1908 DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE AND LABOR. HEADS OF FAMILIES AT THE FIRST CENSUS OF THE UNITED STATES TAKEN IN THE YEAR 1790, MAINE, NEW HAMPSHIRE, VERMONT. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1908. First edition thus, three volumes bound as one: Maine, 105 pp.; New Hampshire, 146 pp.; Vermont, 95 pp. Illustrated with folding maps. Blue cloth printed to spine in gilt. Near fine with minor wear to spine and boards., Fine Stock number: 56926.
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Imprint: 1914 DER LING, Princess. TWO YEARS IN THE FORBIDDEN CITY. New York: Moffat, Yard and Company, 1914. Later printing, Illustrated from photographs. ix,[5],383 pp. Octavo, terra cotta cloth, gilt-stamped title to spine and upper board. Cloth is lightly sunned at spine and shows general, faint soiling. Clean within and a sound copy overall. Very good plus., Very Good Stock number: 77282.
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Imprint: 1923 DERIEUX, Samuel A. ANIMAL PERSONALITIES. New York: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1923. First edition. 8vo., green cloth ruled in blind, lettered in gilt. A near fine copy in a dustwrapper that is lightly worn along top edge of lower panel, (one shallow closed tear)., Fine Stock number: 54873.
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Imprint: 1938 (DERRYDALE PRESS). PACK & PADDOCK. By Tad Shepperd. Illustrated by Paul Brown. New York: The Derrydale Press, (1938). 1/950 numbered copies. Small 8vo, half red cloth and paper boards, red paper label, t.e.g. Inner hinge just starting, else a fine copy., Fine Stock number: 42320.
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Imprint: 1933 (DERRYDALE PRESS). THE THUNDERER. By M.B. With drawings by Paul Brown. New York: The Derrydale Press, 1933. Tall 8vo, red cloth, a little rubbed at extremes, else near fine., Fine Stock number: 42321.
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Imprint: 1952 DESCARTES, Rene, transl. by David Eugene SMITH and Marcia L. LATHAM. THE GEOMETRY OF RENE DESCARTES. With a Facsimile of the first edition, 1637. Las Salle, IL: The Open Court Publishing Company, 1952. xiii + 246 pp. 8vo., green cloth with gilt spine lettering. Spine slightly bumped, else a fine copy in a near fine dust jacket with faint soil and edgewear. Translation of "La Geometrie.", Fine Stock number: 82037.
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Imprint: 1965 DESCARTES, Rene, ed. Charles ADAM and Paul TANNERY. OEUVRES DES DESCARTES: Epistola ad G. Voetium, Lettre Apologetique, Notae in Programma VIII - 2. Paris: Librairie Philosophique J. Vrin, 1965. XIII + 380 pp. 8vo., pale wrappers printed in red and black. Spine darkened, light soil to wrappers, else fine. In French or Latin. VIII - 2. Epistola ad G. Voetium Lettre Apologetique Notae in Programma, Fine Stock number: 84978.
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Imprint: 1911 [DESIGN] Shirokiya Department Store. 38 COVERS FROM RYU^KO^ MAGAZINE. Tokyo, Taisho era design, done by the design staff, including Furuta Tachiji, of Shirokiya Department store for this, their monthly magazine. Here we have a group of 38 front covers, removed from the original magazines. They were trimmed by a collector to uniform size andstab bound into an album. Here removed again, they provide a repositury of Taisho^ chic design at its best. Save for the trimming and occasional foxing, in very good condition., Very Good Stock number: 86927.
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Imprint: 1911 [DESIGN] Sugiura HISUI. 44 COVERS FROM MITSUKOSHI MAGAZINE. Tokyo, Meiji 44 to Taisho 6 [1911-1917] Hisui, perhaps the most influential design figure in the development of "Taisho Chic", joined Mitsukoshi department store in 1908 at the age of 32 as a part-time designer and became their head of design two years later. His graphic work on the covers of the monthly Mitsukoshi magazine marked the begining of his rise to prominence and he would spend decades as an illustrator and book designer thereafter, a prime mover in the spread of a native Deco design tradition in Japan. Here we have a group of 44 front covers, removed from the original magazines. They were trimmed by a collector to uniform size and stab bound into an album. Here removed again, they provide a remarkable record of Hisui's graphic genius. Save for the trimming and occasional foxing, in very good condition., Good Stock number: 86899.
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Inscription: Signed, inscribed or annotated [DESIGN] SUGIURA Hisui, et al. ALBUM OF LOOSE DESIGNS. Modern album with clear plastic sleeves in black plastic covers. 34 Hisui designs from Mitsukoshi magazine and their advertising material. 5 designs signed by YM (MY?). 8 designs by Takehisa Yumeji. 70 designs from magazines and advertising material from Shirokiya Department Store. All from the Taisho^ period. Extremely interesting study collection of 117 quite large images (some are magazine covers and full page illustrations) from this important moment in the development of Japanese design. The images are in very good or better condition., Very Good Stock number: 88733.
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Imprint: 1890 [DESIGN] Kamisaka Yoshitaka [SEKKA]. Bekko Kyozome MIYAKO NO OMOKAGE. Kyoto, Tanaka Jihei [BUNKYUDO], Meiji 23 [1890]. 23.7 x 16.7 cm, string- bound, Japanese-style, fukuro-toji. Design-printed paper covers, printed title label. 54 pages of color-printed designs for kimonos. This appears to be the first separate work containing the designs of Kamisaka Yoshitaka, later to be known as Sekka, published when he was but 24 years old. Sekka was, of course, the greatest representative of the Neo-Rimpa style and its progenitor, and has to be considered one of the greatest designers of the 20th century in Japan and the world. This earliest of his works is extremely scarce. In very good impression and colors, with a bit of sunning to the front cover, a tiny bit of worming to the last pages, overall very good condition., Very Good Stock number: 88233.
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Imprint: 1902 [DESIGN]. BIJUTSU ZUAN GAHO. Vol. 1 [of at least 4]. Kyoto: Unkindo, Meiji 35 [1902]. 24 x 17.6 cm. Tassel-bound, fukuro toji, printed paper covers. 18 pages of well-printed designs from textiles, pottery, etc., etc. Issued as a periodical by Unkindo, it appears that at least four issues were distributed. A bit of edgewear, else very good throughout., Very Good Stock number: 87509.
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Imprint: 1903 [DESIGN] Kamisaka SEKKA, artist. CHIGUSA, Vol.1. Kyoto, Unsodo, Meiji 32 [1899]. 35.5 X 23.6 cm. 1 volume. Bound orihon-style, back to back. This exquisite suite of 30 single page color printed woodblocks precedes Sekka's MOMOYOGUSA by a decade. As in MOMOYOGUSA, many of the prints are printed and overprinted using opaque and metallic inks to produce a sumptuous surface. 6 of the interleaved tissue sheets are the original poem-printed ones, which are seldom found. The full suite of 54 plates was completed and published as a three volume set in 1903. The copy we have is made up of the 10 three print fascicles for volume one that Unsodo issued on a monthly basis. The condition of the prints is very good, the impressions excellent. It would seem to have been bound up into the volume one covers by Unsodo, although the original front cover is missing. With the ad page and title from the original parts bound in, but missing the short preface and title page of the later bound version of volume one. With all 30 prints for volume one, complete., Good Stock number: 84629.
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Imprint: 1901 [DESIGN] KOSUGI Sugimura & YOKOI Tokifuyu, designers. DAI NIHON BIJUTSU ZUFU 8 vols. Tokyo, Yoshikawa Hanshichi, Meiji 34 [1901]. 4 plate volumes, orihon folding albums illustrated with 154 pages of color woodcut. 25.1 x 18.5 cm and 4 text volumes, string-bound Japanese-style, fukuro-toji. Very unusual complete. A lovely compendium of traditional design. A bit of waterstaining to two of the text volumes, else very good colors, impression and condition., Very Good Stock number: 88597.
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Imprint: 1940 [DESIGN]. DESIGN DOCUMENTS. Drawings and Design Documentation for the Applied Arts 1840-1940. [Exhibition catalogue]. London: Yu-Chee Chong Fine Art, [n.d.]. Oblong 8vo., printed wrappers, illustrated in color and black & white. Touch of scuffing to wrappers, else fine., Fine Stock number: 60830.
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Imprint: 1915 [DESIGN MAGAZINE] Fukada Zuan Kenkyusho. GENDAI NO ZUAN; GENDAI NO ZUAN KOGEI; ZUAN TO KOGEI. Tokyo, Taisho 4 [1915] to Taisho 13 [1924]. 23 issues of this important periodical on design in Japan. The dominant aesthetic is a Japanese version of Art Deco. Each issue has many illustrations, several of which are in color and the covers are classics. There are hundreds of pages of interesting and informative articles on contenporary design by critics and artists alike. By 1922, it dropped the "GENDAI" ["CONTEMPORARY"] from the title and the last 4 issues here are much less oriented to Art Deco and more inclusive of traditional and folk design, as well. Overall there is some browning but the general condition is quite good. The magazines are individually complete. A very scarce periodical, here preserved in a good-sized archive which is, of course, only a partial run., Good Stock number: 87600.
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Imprint: 1900 [DESIGN] UENO Kiyoe, designer. HANA NO KAKE. Meiji 33 [1900]. Kyoto, Honda Ichijiro. String-bound Japanese style, fukuro-toji, 17.5 x 24.4 cm, 30 full page color plates after designs by Ueno, one of the most important Yuzen dyers of his day. Published by Honda Ichijiro, later the founder of Unkindo^. The covers and the interior are clean and the printings and colors are excellent (with metallic inks, blind-stamping, etc.). The fourth volume of this series. (See Cheryl Boettcher, THE KIMONO IMAGINED, University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana). Stock number: 84589.
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Imprint: 1903 [DESIGN] Goto Ryuko. HANA NO NISHIKI #3. Kyoto: Unkindo, Meiji 36 [1903]. A single woodblock-printed sheet, approx. 36 X 50 cm., folded into printed covers, 25.2 x 17.8 cm. Unkindo, a short-lived but brilliant publisher, later merged into the Unsodo concern. A bit browned and edgeworn, it is number 3 from an unknown number of such single-sheet designs. Very unusual, unknown in the literature. Stock number: 87489.
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Imprint: 1903 [DESIGN] Goto Ryuko. HANA NO NISHIKI #1. Kyoto: Unkindo, Meiji 36 [1903]. A single woodblock-printed sheet, approx. 36 X 50 cm., folded into printed covers, 25.2 x 17.8 cm. Unkindo, a short-lived but brilliant publisher, later merged into the Unsodo concern. A bit browned and edgeworn, it is number 1 from an unknown number of such single-sheet designs. Very unusual, unknown in the literature. Stock number: 87627.
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Imprint: 1903 [DESIGN] Goto Ryuko. HANA NO NISHIKI #2. Kyoto: Unkindo, Meiji 36 [1903]. A single woodblock-printed sheet, approx. 36 X 50 cm., folded into printed covers, 25.2 x 17.8 cm. Unkindo, a short-lived but brilliant publisher, later merged into the Unsodo concern. A bit browned and edgeworn, it is number 2 from an unknown number of such single-sheet designs. Very unusual, unknown in the literature. Stock number: 87628.
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Imprint: 1903 [DESIGN] Goto Ryuko. HANA NO NISHIKI #3. Kyoto: Unkindo, Meiji 36 [1903]. A single woodblock-printed sheet, approx. 36 X 50 cm., folded into printed covers, 25.2 x 17.8 cm. Unkindo, a short-lived but brilliant publisher, later merged into the Unsodo concern. A bit browned and edgeworn, it is number 3 from an unknown number of such single-sheet designs. Very unusual, unknown in the literature. Stock number: 87629.
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Imprint: 1900 [DESIGN] Yamashita KORIN. HANAGATA Aki. Kyoto, Honda Ichijiro, et al. 25.5 x 36.7 cm. String-bound Japanese-style fukuro-toji. The autumn is represented in 35 (of 40) full page oban size prints of kimono designs. The volume is in very good condition, lovely printings. Honda Ichijiro is the printer/publisher who went on to start the important house, Unkindo, and join Unsodo thereafter. It appears that Louise Brown saw a single volume of this set in Japan [Brown, page 203]. When complete, the four volume set covers all four seasons. Even incomplete, as here, it is a lovely production., Very Good Stock number: 84581.
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Imprint: 1899 [DESIGN] Yamashita KORIN. HANAGATA. 4 vols. Kyoto, Honda Ichijiro, et al., [1899-1900]. 25.5 x 36.7 cm. String-bound, Japanese style, fukuro- toji. The four seasons are represented in 155 full page oban size prints of kimono designs. The set is in very good condition, lovely printings. Honda Ichijiro is the printer/publisher who went on to start the important house, Unkindo, and join Unsodo thereafter. It appears that Louise Brown saw a single volume of this set in Japan [Brown, page 203]. Though individual incomplete volumes of this set occasionally appear, a full set, complete, like this one is very unusual. In a modern chitsu clasped case., Very Good Stock number: 86872.
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Imprint: 1900 [DESIGN BOOKS] Yamashita KORIN. HANAGATA. 4 vols. Kyoto, Honda Ichijiro, et al. Meiji 32-3, [1899-1900] 25.5 x 36.7 cm. String-bound Japanese-style fukuro-toji. The four seasons are represented in 155 full page oban size prints of kimono designs. The set is internally in fine condition, lovely printings. The covers of the spring and summer volumes have some oxidation, but otherwise a truly lovely set. Honda Ichijiro is the printer/publisher who went on to start the important house, Unkindo, and join Unsodo thereafter. It appears that Louise Brown saw a single volume of this set in Japan [Brown, page 203]. Though individual incomplete volumes of this set occasionally appear, a full set, complete, like this one is virtually unheard of. In the original publisher's chitsu clasped case., Fine Stock number: 88600.
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Imprint: 1760 [DESIGN - HIINAGATABON]. Omiya Muneshichi, artist. HINAGATA MIYAKO NO FUJI Chu. Kyoto? Horeki 10 [1760]. 26.2 x 18.2 cm. 32 full page b+w printed kimono designs. There is one copy in the KSSM, in the National Diet Library. There are apparently none recorded outside Japan. Original covers, no title label. Soiling, wear, paper wrinkling. Good impressions. Volume two, only, of three published., Good Stock number: 87999.
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Imprint: 1714 [DESIGN - HIINAGATABON] NAKAJIMA Tanjiro, [Matsune Koto?] et al. HINAGATA GIONBAYASHI Jo. N.P., N.D. [Kyoto, Toyama Ihei, Shotoku 4 {1714}] Ohon, 25.9 x 17.7cm. There are 42 full page Rimpa-influenced designs in this volume one of a three volume series. A copy was shown at the TREASURES BY RIMPA MASTERS exhibition shown at the Heiseikan in Tokyo in 2008 for the 350 year anniversary of Ogata Korin's birth. KSSM (6, 720-3). Some staining, page wrinkling etc. A fair copy only of a fair to good impression of this rare example of a scarce genre. The KSSM only locates 2 complete sets and one odd single volume like this one. We could locate none outside Japan., Good Stock number: 88001.
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Imprint: 1747 [DESIGN - HIINAGATABON] Ebishiya Chushichi, artist. HINAGATA MIYAKO NO HARU Chu. [Kyoto & Osaka, Kikuya Kihei, Nodaya Riemon, Kashiwabaraya Seiemon, Enkyo 4 {1747}] 26.5 x 18.4 cm. 34 full page b+w printed kimono designs. The KSSM locates no copies in Japan, but references two bibliographies. There is a copy in the Diet Library of a book with the same title, but it would appear to be a later edition, or a different book, published c.1800. There is a copy at the Victoria and Albert Museum. Original? covers, no title label. Soiling, stains, some worming. Good impressions. Volume two, only, of three published., Good Stock number: 88007.
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Imprint: 1737 [DESIGN - HIINAGATABON] Nonomura Chubei, artist. HINAGATA OTOWA NO TAKI Chu. [Kyoto, Genbun 2 [1737] 26.7 x 18.2 cm. 38 full page b+w printed kimono designs. There is a copy in the National Diet Library, that copy was shown at the TREASURES BY RIMPA MASTERS exhibition shownat the Heiseikan in Tokyo in 2008 for the 350 year anniversary of Ogata Korin's birth. There is another incomplete copy in Japan, as well as a copy at the MFA in Boston. Original covers and remains of a title label. Fairly clean, a bit of worming. Good impressions. Volume two, only, of three published., Good Stock number: 88009.
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Imprint: 1919 [DESIGN] Sugiura HISUI. HISUI ZUAN-SHU. Tokyo, Bun'endo. Taisho 8 [1919], the sixth printing. Folder of 50 numbered sheets of 187 designs in various media and styles (woodcut, lithograph and offset). A wonderful epitome of Taisho-era "chic", produced by Bun'endo, perhaps the finest publisher of the time using all the most advanced techniques. Designs for book publications, sheet music covers, posters, etc., etc. Hisui, responsible between the wars for Mitsukoshi department stores' trendsetting design and publicity, has been rediscovered within the last decade. There was a wonderful retrospective on his work done at the Tokyo Museum of Modern Art in 2000 and his portfolios are very sought-after. About very good over all, contains 48 original printings of the 50 plates, along with color copies of plates 2 and 29, missing from this portfolio and here supplied in facsimile. Though titled the "first series", no further work was published under this title. In the tied portfolio but without the publisher's printed slipcase., Very Good Stock number: 84702.
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Imprint: 1937 [DESIGN] HIRABARA [Norifumi?], editor. IRO TO KATACHI 23 (of 25) volumes. Tokyo: Iro to Katachi-sha, Showa 12 - Showa 14 [1937-39]. Volume nos. 2-18, 20-25. Small pamphlet-sized wrappered periodicals, 19 x 13 cm., ranging in size from some 22 pages to 48 pages apiece. As the title "COLOR AND SHAPE" indicates this monthly publication attempted to enhance the scientific background of design in Japan with scholarly articles aimed at professional designers. The pamphlets are in very good condition, enclosed in the original publisher's slipcase - which must have appeared when the set was complete - that lacks the spine panel. Very unusual., Very Good Stock number: 86919.
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Imprint: 1909 [DESIGN] ISONO, U. IZUTSU Yuki no Maki. Kyoto, Isono Shikkaiten, Meiji 42 [1909]. Very large ribbon-bound fukuro-toji binding in printed paper covers. 45 x 32.3 cm. 30 full page polychrome woodcuts depicting kimono patterns, printed and over-printed for a sumptuous surface. Isono was a textile firm of the day, here employing some of the best techniques available to display their wares. This is the "snow" volume of a three volume set. Very scarce, the largest size prints of the "hinagata-bon" genre we have seen. Well-printed and internally quite clean, the covers are worn. Stock number: 84580.
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Imprint: 1904 [DESIGN] Ogino ISSUI, designer. KAKIMAMI GUSA vol. 3. Kyoto, Unkindo, Meiji 37 [1904] Ribbon-bound oblong Japanese style, 25.4 x 36 cm. Ge volume (volume three of three, only). 25 large full page color woodblock designs by Ogino Issui, one of the most elusive, yet most skillful designers of the early 20th century. This would appear to be the original Unkindo edition, later sold (though maybe not reprinted) by Unsodo when Unkindo was folded into Unsodo. It appears in the Taisho era Unsodo catalogue, but not the later Showa era one. The book is largely unheard of in the marketplace. Little is known of Issui and his oeuvre is quite limited, his most famous work being the ZUAN HYAKUDAI in three volumes. This work is perhaps his scarcest and very lovely. In nice condition, impression and color through out with a bit of browning. Stock number: 85101.
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Imprint: 1900 [DESIGN] TSUDA Seifu, artist. KAMONFU 2 vols. Kyoto, Honda Ichijiro, Meiji 33 [1900]. 25.2 X 17.9 cm. Tassel-bound, Japanese style, printed paper covers. Tsuda Seifu was a painter, illustrator and designer of incredible flexibility, one of the most influential masters of the 20th century, and Honda Ichijiro a leading publisher of his day. These 80 full- page color woodcut designs are extremely well-printed with heavy opaque colors and metallic inks. An important example of the design genre, this is a complete copy of a scarce work that shows just a bit of edgewear, two plates that are trimmed at the bottom margin (not affecting the images), and a few toned leaves, else in very good or better condition. For more on this work, see pp. 20 & 21 of the recent catalogue ZUANCHO IN KYOTO [Trujillo & Mitsui, Stanford University Libraries, 2008]., Very Good Stock number: 87913.
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Imprint: 1904 [DESIGN] ISOZAKI Kosaburo. KINKAN'EN SHINISHO YOHON NEW SAMPLES OF COLORED MATTING - "KIN KAN EN." Okayama, Meiji 37 [1904]. Cord bound Japanese style, title printed on front cover. 34.2 X 22.6 CM. 34 full- page color woodcuts of flat-weave matting designs. The matting is still made today in Okayama from the igusa plant. Very simple and delicate designs. A sample book for the Isozaki line. Stock number: 83290.
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Imprint: 1908 [DESIGN] Furuya KORIN. KOGEI NO BI. Kyoto, Unsodo, Meiji 41 [1908]. 3 vols. Folding orihon albums, 32 X 22.5 cm, in paper over boards with integral printed title labels. The first printing of this set, as here, is very scarce and quite delightful - the 75 large double page designs in woodblock, employing karazuri (gauffrage, metallic inks, etc., represent a peak of the printing art as practiced by Unsodo at the time. Korin, the designer, is usually considered an equal to Sekka and Tennen, though this work and his remarkable SEIKA, are the only large format works by him we have seen. The designs are in an interesting format, often constrained to the shapes of pottery pieces, especially vases. The result is a remarkable demonstration of how two dimensional designs can be adapted to three dimensional shapes, here rendered, of course, in two dimensions once again. The printing is superb, the condition throughout good to very good, though there is occasional slight browning of the paper, as usual. In a later folding clasped chitsu case which preserves the original chitsu printed paper title label., Very Good Stock number: 88331.
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Imprint: 1894 [DESIGN] HARUNA Shigeharu, editor. Ko^gei O^yo^ ZUAN ZASSHI 7 issues. No.'s 20-26, To^kyo^, Meiji 26-27 [1893-4]. 24.5 x 16.6 cm. Stab-bound wrapper's in woodblock printed paper covers. Haruna Shigeharu (1847-1913) was a pottery painter born into the upper classes in Ishikawa prefecture, here using his artistic and design skills to organize and edit this "PRACTICAL ARTS DESIGN MAGAZINE", full of black and white design ideas and articles on such topics as the Columbian Exposition, etc. Very unusual periodical, here in very good condition, inside and out. A short but continuous run., Very Good Stock number: 88685.
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Imprint: 1891 [DESIGN] Taniguchi Kokyo. KORIN GAFU. Kyoto, Tanaka Jihei, Meiji 24 [1891]. Large 28.6 x 39.6 cm oblong tassel-bound album of color woodblock prints, lavishly printed with bokashi shading, metallic inks, etc. Kokyo (1864-1918) had been a student of Kono Bairei and by the late 1880s had undertaken serious study of the legacy of Rimpa style. He was allowed by the descendants of Sakai Ho-itsu to see and copy some wonderful original Ogata Korin paintings that remained in the family. Those copies formed the basis of the 12 designs in this book and heralded the true beginnings of the Rimpa design revival in Kyoto, a movement developed further by such artists as Kamisaka Sekka and Furya Korin and printer/publishers such as Unkindo and Unsodo. The covers are mica patterned with the original printed title label, in good condition. The front cover of the original clasped publisher's chitsu has been rescued and remounted on a rebuilt chitsu. Internally very good, the printing is exquisite. A very important and unusual work in the history of the development of design in Kyoto in the late 19th century., Good Stock number: 88444.
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Imprint: 1918 [DESIGN] Taniguchi KOKYO, artist. KODAI MOYO Ichi, Ni. Kyoto, "saihan" Taisho 7 [1918]. 36.3 x 25.0 cm., woodblock-printed covers, tassel-bound, fukuro-toji. Kokyo (1864-1915) was born into a cloth merchant family, adopted into the Taniguchi family and became a student of Kono Bairei. Important in Kyoto art circles, here he serves as an Unsodo designer. There are 25 pages of color woodblock prints of designs based on traditional motifs in each of the two volumes, plus an additional 11 pages of fan designs in volume two, so 61 pages of designs in all. There is a bit of interest bibliographically regarding this book.... If one looks at the Unsodo English language catalog of 1915, this book is listed as having 10 volumes. Yet, the colophon of this copy of ours clearly states that the set is complete in two volumes, as here. Now, the first printing was done in 1911. One might hypothesize that the original edition of 1911 consisted of two volumes, that plans were made to expand it to 10 volumes, but by the time the "saihan" reprint was done in 1918, those plans had been dropped. In any event a good impression with good colors, very good condition overall. Some striking images are included in the mix., Very Good Stock number: 87822.
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Imprint: 1912 [DESIGN] Sugiura HISUI. KODAKARA. Tokyo: Mitsukoshi Gofukuten, Meiji 45 [1912]. 29 x 23.5 cm., decorated boards and cloth, in decorated dustwrapper and original tied decorated portfolio covers. A lovely package, designed and illustrated by Hisui (1876-1965), the head designer for Mitsukoshi for the first half of the 20th century, and one of the most important commercial designers of his day. Profusely illustrated throughout in color lithographs and relief prints. The text was written by Iwaya Sazanami, this wonderful book was created for the new mothers of the burgeoning middle class who were buying their baby clothes and furnishings at Mitsukoshi. It was meant as a child's diary of development. from birth to the age of seven. Originally published in 1909, this second printing is nearly perfect (there is some spotting to the tied outer covers) and original and, as such, very scarce and desirable. [See pp. 70-71 for more on this book in the Hisui special issue of the magazine, HANGA GEIJUTSU, #140, Summer, 2008.] Near fine., Fine Stock number: 85515.
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Imprint: 1902 [DESIGN] Matsuoka Tokikata; Honma Hyakuri. Kojitsu Sosho SHOKUMON ZUE. 7 vols., originally privately published by Hyakuri, apparently from 1815-25, as a completion of work begun by Tokikata in the late 18th, very early 19th century. This is the reprint of this classic work, done as part of the "Kojitsu Sosho" [Classic Library] series, published by Yoshikawa Hanshichi et al in Meiji 34, 35 [1901,2] Very slightly smaller than the original volumes, each about 18.2 x 24.9 cm, string-bound Japanese-style fukuro toji with printed paper title labels - all bindings match. Hundreds of beautiful color textile designs, reproduced in color woodcut. Nobleman, Ladies, Ceremonial dress, Brocades, Imperial costumes, all are covered. Retains most of the appeal of the original edition. Slight external wear, lovely inside. Stock number: 84576.
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