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Imprint: 1936 EDMONDS, Walter D. DRUMS ALONG THE MOHAWK. Boston; Little, Brown & Co., 1936. First edition, signed by the author at the half-title. 8vo., lavender cloth, gilt, pictorial endpaper As is: binding shaken, sunned, mildly dampstained, edgeworn, skewed, with gilt dulled; hinges cracked, with old ink price to ffep; ffep and fly-leaf starting. Slight age- yellowing to page perimeters. Needs rebinding. Stock number: 69677.
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Imprint: 1865 EDMONDS, S. Emma E. NURSE AND SPY IN THE UNION ARMY: Comprising the Adventures and Experiences of a Woman in Hospitals, Camps, and Battle- Fields. Hartford, CT: W. S. Williams & Co./Philadelphia and Cincinatti: Jones Bros. & Co./Chicago: J. A. Stoddard & Co., 1865. 384 pp. 8vo., brown cloth with gilt lettering and front cover decoration. Owner's ink signature on rear of frontispiece engraving. Spine sunned, faded; frayed heel and crown. Block tight except pp. 229-240 sprung. Heavy to moderate foxing of engraved plates, one of which illustrates the author disguised as "contraband." Stock number: 78950.
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Imprint: 1981 (EDO PERIOD). THE GREAT JAPAN EXHIBITION. Art of the Edo Period, 1600- 1868. Edited by Professor William Watson. New York: Alpine Fine Arts, (1981). First American edition. 365 pp., fully illustrated in b&w and with 96 pp. color plates. Large 4to, wrappers. Fine., Fine. Illustr: FE Stock number: 49664.
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Imprint: 1981 (EDO PERIOD). THE GREAT JAPAN EXHIBITION. Art of the Edo Period, 1600- 1868. Edited by Professor William Watson. London: Weidenfield & Nicholson, (1981). First British edition. 365 pp., fully illustrated in b&w and with 96 pp. color plates. Large 4to, wrappers. Fine., Fine. Illustr: FE Stock number: 53482.
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Imprint: 1790 [KNOX, Vicesimus]. ELEGANT EXTRACTS: Or Useful and Entertaining Passages in Prose selected for the Improvement of Scholars at Classical and Other Schools in the Art of Speaking, Reading, Thinking, Composing; and in the Conduct of Life. A new edition. London: Printed for Charles Dilly [ca. 1790]. xvi, [viii], 856 pp. 8vo., original calf rebacked in caramel colored gilt and blind tooled calf to match, with gilt black morocco spine label. Original end papers preserved. Faint foxing to title page, which bears an engrved vignette of a flower-bordered beeskep with several honeybees in flight. There is minor occasional foxing in the text, it is quite clean overall. A handsome copy, sound and tight. Stock number: 83370.
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Imprint: 1831 (EDUCATION, History of). THE QUARTERLY REGISTER OF THE AMERICAN EDUC- ATION SOCIETY. Vol. III. Boston: Perkins & Marvin, 1831. With a fold-out color map of the U.S., much statistical information on social conditions educational condition of the country; and articles on Self-Made Men, the Moral Destiny of America, etc. There is some foxing, and considerable wear to the boards and cloth back (only traces of the paper label remain). Still, a very good, tight copy, in the original binding., Very Good. Illustr: FE Stock number: 79808.
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Imprint: 1868 [EDUCATION] COMMITTEE ON EDUCATION, COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS. REPORTS ON THE ABOLITION OF CORPORAL PUNISHMENT IN THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS MAY, 1868. Boston: Wright and Potter, 1868. 48 pp. 8vo., green sewn wrappers printed in black. Light creasing to front cover through first 12 pages. Light soil and foxing to wrappers, light edgewear to wrappers. Occasional light foxing within. Very good overall., Very Good Stock number: 85250.
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Imprint: 1944 EDWARD, Duke of Windsor. TYPED LETTER, SIGNED. A single sheet, imprinted with the Duke's initial and motto at the head, addressed to Herbert E. Macauley, Mayor of Newport, R.I. The letter is dated August 24, 1944, and the body of the message is twenty-two typed lines. In his letter, Windsor thanks the mayor for an illuminated copy of a resolution which had been presented to him when he attended the dedication of the Federal Recreation Building, "the first U.S.O. unit to be erected for and staffed with all negro personnel." He continues: "As Governor of the Colony of Bahamas I have devoted four years to improving the conditions of the negro community under my care and I, therefore, congratulate the City of Newport... [for] providing social amenities for negro service men stationed in Newport." Beneath a typed closing, it is boldly signed in ink: Edward. A few small spots at one corner, else fine. Attractively matted and framed., Fine Stock number: 74059.
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Imprint: 1840 Edwards, Milne, and Achille Comte. CAHIERS D'HISTOIRE NATURELLE a l'Usage des Colleges et des Ecoles Normales Primaires. Paris, Fortin, Masson & Cie, 1840. Octavo. (viii) 100, 141, 96, 88, 82, 126, 100pp. plus 37 plates and several tables, three of them folding. Fifth edition, revised and enlarged. Contemporary calf-backed marbled boards. Seven "Cahiers" cover anatomy, zoology, botany and geology, each with five to seven engraved plates, and one hand-colored folding plate showing a geological cross- section. An interesting indication of the high standard of primary education in the sciences at this time. Light wear to extremities, and one hinge of folding plate fragile, else fine., Fine Stock number: 70890.
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Imprint: 1932 EDWARDS, Harry Stillwell. ENEAS AFRICANUS. Macon, GA: J.W. Burke, 1932. 12mo., wrappers, 48 pp. Mild edgewear and soil to wraps, touch of foxing internally. Very good., Very Good Stock number: 71866.
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Imprint: 1903 EDWARDS, Ernest Richard. ETUDE PHONETIQUE DE LA LANGUE JAPONAISE: THESE POUR LE DOCTORAT D'UNIVERSITE DE PARIS, PRESENTEE A LA FACULTE DES LETTRES A LA SORBONNE. Leipzig: B. G. Teubner, 1903. 208 pp. 8vo., quarter cloth (black) with gilt spine lettering and marbled paper covered boards. Ink ownership to front pastedown. Paper age-toned. Text in French with Japanese lessons. Stock number: 82839.
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Imprint: 1829 EDWARDS, H. M., M.D. and P. Vavasseur, M.D. A MANUAL OF MATERIA MEDICA AND PHARMACY: COMPRISING A CONCISE DESCRIPTION OF THE ARTICLES USED IN MEDICINE; THEIR PHYSCIAL AND CHEMICAL PROPERTIES; BOTANICAL CHARACTERS OF THE MEDICINAL PLANTS ... Translated from the French by Joseph Togno, M.D. and E. Durand. Philadelphia: Carey, Lea & Carey, 1829. 3 folding tables. 523 pp. + 1 p. errata. 8vo., contemporary binding of quarter black morocco with green marbled boards. Ink ownership and inscription on ffep. Faint library stamp to title-page, no other marks. Binding is rubbed, joints tender. Text clean. About very good., Very Good Stock number: 87123.
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Imprint: 1865 EDWARDS, M. A., ed. PHILIP IN PALESTINE. Philadelphia: James S. Claxton (1865). 298 pp. 12mo., blue pebbled cloth stamped in gilt and blind. Very good, corners gently bumped, minor shelfwear. Gilt spine bright. Ex- library with bookplate and inkstamp to front endpapers. B/w frontispiece and illustrations. More adventures of Philip Conway., Very Good Stock number: 82578.
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Imprint: 1766 EDWARDS, Jonathan. THE GREAT CHRISTIAN DOCTRINE OF ORIGINAL SIN DEFENDED; EVIDENCES OF ITS TRUTH PRODUCED, AND ARGUMENTS TO THE CONTRARY ASWERED. Containing, in particular, a Reply to the Objections and Arguings of Dr. John Taylor, in his Book, Intitled, "The Scripture-Doctrine of Original Sin proposed to free and candid Examination, &c." Boston printed, London re-printed, for J. Johnson and G. Keith, 1766. First British edition. xxiii + [1] + 470 pp. + 2 pp. publisher's ads. 8vo., gilt ruled calf with raised bands, gilt red leather spine label. Front board detached, rear joint cracked. Light staining to boards. Spine and edges worn. Ink ownership to front pastedown, dated 1782. Front flyleaf with another's ink ownership. Light foxing and a few dog-eared corners in the text. Block sound. Edwards, in this important philosophical and theological text, argued against the idea of necessary connection, as Hume did. Edwards attributed all causation directly to God's "arbitrary constitution." Cf Sabin 21942. Stock number: 84539.
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Imprint: 1930 EGAN, Beresford and Brian de Shane. DE SADE. Being a series of wounds, inflicted with brush and pen, upon Sadistic Wolves garbed in Masochist's Wool. Published for the first time by The Fortune Press, London [n.d., c. 1930]. Limited edition, 1/1600 copies. 4to., plum cloth, lettered in gilt, illustrated in a decadent style. Ink ownership; ex-library, no external marks. Cloth faded from sun, especially at spine and edges; touch of wear to heel. Internally, clean and tight, with a slight nick to one fore-edge. A fourteen page essay with seventeen illustrations. A very good copy., Very Good Stock number: 63939.
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Imprint: 1892 EGAN, Pierce. THE LIFE OF AN ACTOR. The Poetical Desrciptions by T. Greenwood. Embellished with Thirty-seven Characteristic Scenes, Etched by Theodore Lane. London: Pickering and Chatto, 1892. Later printing. The illustrations, which are hand colored, are facsimiles of those in the first edition. 257pp. Large 8vo., red cloth, black rules along the top and bottom edge, lettered in gilt to spine and upper board, illustrated vignette in gilt to upper board, top edge gilt, black glazed endpapers. The text and brightly colored illustrations are clean and fresh; the cloth is soiled and edgeworn, with shallow loss to crown of spine. Contemporary ink ownership to verso of front free endpaper. Overall, a very good copy., Very Good Stock number: 54317.
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Imprint: 1933 EGAN, Joseph B. THE TALKING STATUES. Wellesley Hills, MA: The Welles Publishing Company, (1933). First edition. Presentation copy inscribed by the author on front flyleaf. 466 pp. 8vo., dark blue cloth stamped in yellow and white with cover vignette. B/w illustrations. Pedagogical stories, designed for young children (probably grades 4-6). Some fantastical, some historical. Fine., Fine Stock number: 82364.
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Imprint: 1954 EGERTON, Clement, transl. THE GOLDEN LOTUS. A Translation from the Chinese original of the novel Chin P'ing Mei. New York: Grove Press, (1954). Four vols. First American edition from the British sheets. A complete, though expurgated, version of this anonymous late Ming classic, with some of the more explicit passages translated into Latin. Authorship has been variously attributed to Xu Wei and to Wang Shizhen. 8vo. green cloth, top edge gilt. A fine bright set., Fine Stock number: 88433.
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Imprint: 1871 EGGLESTON, Edward. HOOSIER SCHOOL-MASTER. New York: Orange Judd and Company, 1871. Second printing (as distinguished by BAL). Illustrations by Frank Beard. 8vo., terra cotta cloth; gilt lettering and decoration at spine. Ex library. Title page detached but present, bearing library blind- stamp; hinges cracked, bubbling, mild bumping and soil to boards. Offered with all faults. Stock number: 61171.
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Imprint: 1873 EGGLESTON, George Cary. A MAN OF HONOR. New York: Orange Judd Company, (1873). First edition. Inscribed by the author. Illustrated. 8vo., terra cotta cloth, spine lettered and decorated in gilt. Ex-library, with a light erasure to spine the only external mark. A good copy, with a 2" open gouge to the front board at the bottom egde, and a bump to the fore- edge. (Wright II, 845)., Good Stock number: 61178.
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Imprint: 1916 [EHON] GENDAI HAIGA SHU [A COLLECTION OF MODERN HAIGA] 1 volume [of 4] Summer. Summer has 30 full page color woodcuts, complete as called for. String-bound Japanese style in printed paper covers. Dated Taisho 5 [1916], first printing. Compiled by Shimada Yukichi; printed by Kishi Kageyoshi and published by Haigado, Tokyo. The GENDAI HAIGA SHU is a work of considerable skill and scarcity. The list of artists involved is a long one, including Nakamura Fusetsu, Tomita Keisen, Ishii Hakutei, Hirafuku Hyakusui, Ota Saburo, Kosugi Misei, Shimomura Izan and many other important figures in Western-style painting, here working in their literati "haiga" mode. Mitchell had but one volume of the four, the British Library only procured its own complete set within the last ten or fifteen years. Hillier seems to have missed the existence of the book completely. Our "Summer" volume is clean and fresh throughout and the overall condition of the book is very good, with the original covers. The work seems to have escaped the foxing so prevalent in other Taisho era productions. One volume., Very Good Stock number: 85663.
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Imprint: 1866 [EHON] KAKOKUCHO^ Osaka, The title loosely translates as A FLOCK OF POEMS RECITED: BIRDS IN SONG. This small format (covers 11.7 x 6.1 cm) folding orihon unfolds to form 12 diptychs, including the front and back covers which cleverly combine the end and beginning into one unified picture. The zodiacal date corresponds to the spring of 1866 and the style is a modified Shijo^ reminiscent of Zeshin. The book is signed by one "Ayaoka". Very well printed, with good colors, in near perfect condition. An enigmatic and ephemeral work of a genre, half egoyomi, half ehon, which we have not seen before., Good Stock number: 74831.
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Imprint: 1880 [EHON] KANGA SO^GAKU. Osaka, Maekawa Zembei, Meiji 13 [1880]. 4 volumes. String-bound fukuro-toji style, without the printed paper labels. Each volume is 12.1 x 19.7 cm. A "QUICK STUDY" [SO^GAKU] guide to "CHINESE- STYLE PAINTING" [KANGA] with woodcut illustrations and text in Japanese and Kambun Chinese. Our copy resembles the one exhaustively described at Mitchell p. 336. Very good impressions and condition in the original worn blue cloth chitsu clasped [one clasp missing] case with printed paper title label. The first series, complete:, Very Good Stock number: 81156.
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Imprint: 1880 [EHON] KANGA SOGAKU. Osaka: Maekawa Zembei, Meiji 13 [1880]. 4 volumes. String-bound fukuro-toji style, with chipped printed paper labels. 12.1 x 19.7 cm. A "QUICK STUDY" [SOGAKU] guide to "CHINESE-STYLE PAINTING" [KANGA] with woodcut illustrations and text in Japanese and Kambun Chinese. Our copy resembles the one exhaustively described at Mitchell p. 336. Very good impressions and condition in the original worn blue cloth chitsu clasped case with printed paper title label. The first series, complete., Very Good Stock number: 87497.
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Imprint: 1894 [EHON] KORIN SHINSEN HYAKUZU. Kyoto: Hosokawa. 2 vols., patterned paper covers, string-bound Japanese style, fukuro toji. In an edgeworn and splitting chitsu folding box with clasps missing. Printed paper title labels. 25 x 18.4 cm. Illustrated throughout in b+w woodcut, with designs by Suzuki Koson after Ogata Korin. See Mitchell, p. 377 for more on the original edition of 1864. About very good condition, fair to good impressions. Complete:, Very Good Stock number: 52591.
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Imprint: 1810 [EHON] O^hara Minsei, editor. MEISU^ GAFU. Wakayama: Nanreikan, n.d. [c.1810] 4 volumes, 25.2 x 17.6 cm. String-bound Japanese-style, light brown paper covers, original title labels. Good impressions throughout with very slight browning. Mostly b+w with a few color illustrations. Our copy differs from the copy in Mitchell [pp.413, 414] in that the colophon on the inside back cover of volume four is undated and includes only the name of the Wakayama bookseller, Hirai Bunsuke and ads for 10 books published by Hirai. Mitchell is quite enthusiastic about this book's importance, Hillier is more restrained. Complete., Good Stock number: 87498.
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[EHON] TOKYO RAKUJI. n.p., n.d. [Tokyo, c. 1869] 7 3/4" X 5 1/4". As per the copies catalogued in Mitchell, p.532, our copy appears to be bound similarly and without a printed title slip. Illustrated in b+w woodcut by various artists. Very good printing and condition. Interesting view of the new Japan immediately after the Restoration., Very Good Stock number: 82051.
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[EHON] Ichiyo^sai Toyokuni. TOYOKUNI TOSHIDAMA HITSU [FUDE?] Owari [Nagoya], Minoya Iroku & Minoya Bunjiro^. n.d. [1830's or 40's?] Dark grey-green covers, string-bound Japanerse-style, fukuro toji. Printed paper title label. This book may be found described bibliographically in Forrer's EIRAKUYA TOSHIRO at pp.243-4. Our copy differs a bit from the copies described in Forrer, but is a fresh clean copy in good colors and fair to good impression. Color printed throughout, an unusual title., Good Stock number: 83027.
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Imprint: 1885 [EHON] YAMASHIRO MEISHO FUGETSU SHU. Kyoto, Torii Matashichi, Meiji 18 [1885]. 2 vols., complete, 26 X 17 cm. Yellow blindstamped pattern covers, printed paper title labels, string-bound Japanese-style, fukuro toji. Based on a reworking of the blocks from the 1861 work, TAMA HIROI, here with different preliminaries and finals, different haiku poems and reordered images with additions. Hence, not a reprint but a recreation of that late Edo era masterpiece, brought forward into Meiji. Very good condition, impressions, color. Complete. See Mitchell 551-2., Very Good Stock number: 84418.
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Imprint: 1912 [EHON] Ota Saburo, artist. ASA GIRI Tokyo, Meiji 45 [1912]. 2 volumes, string-bound Japanese style, 19.1 x 13 cm. Each volume contains 35 color prints with a facing page of text. The prints appear to be a hybrid of lithography and color woodcut. [See Hillier's discussion of the book in his ART OF THE JAPANESE PRINTED BOOK]. These small volumes constitute a truly remarkable work and is an important example of the Japanese picture book genre produced in the twentieth century. Our copy is in very good condition overall, with almost none of the foxed pages this book usually displays. It is enclosed in the original publisher's box with a printed title label and is one of the nicer copies we have seen. Unusual in such nice condition. Complete:, Very Good Stock number: 86220.
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Imprint: 1912 [EHON] O^ta Saburo^, artist. ASA GIRI Tokyo, Meiji 45 [1912]. 2 volumes, string-bound Japanese style, 19.1 x 13 cm. Each volume contains 35 color prints with a facing page of text. The prints appear to be a hybrid of lithography and color woodcut. [See Hillier's discussion of the book in his ART OF THE JAPANESE PRINTED BOOK]. These small volumes constitute a truly remarkable work and one of the most important examples of the Japanese picture book genre produced in this century. Our copy is in very good condition overall, with only a few foxed pages internally and some stains to the illustrated covers. It is enclosed in the original (damaged) publishers box with a printed title label. Unusual thus. Complete:, Very Good Stock number: 83419.
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Imprint: 1912 [EHON] O^ta Saburo^, artist. ASA GIRI Tokyo, Meiji 45 [1912]. 2 volumes, string-bound Japanese style, 19.1 x 13 cm. Each volume contains 35 color prints with a facing page of text. The prints appear to be a hybrid of lithography and color woodcut. [See Hillier's discussion of the book in his ART OF THE JAPANESE PRINTED BOOK]. These small volumes constitute one of the more interesting examples of the Japanese picture book genre produced in this century. Our copy is in very good condition overall, without the usual foxing marks internally. It is enclosed in the original publishers box with a printed title label and is one of the nicer copies we have seen. Unusual in such nice condition. Complete:, Very Good Stock number: 87470.
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Imprint: 1921 [EHON] Ito Chuta. ASHURA CHO Dai Go-kan. Tokyo: Kokusui Shuppansha, (Arata Eisuke), Taisho 10 [1921]. 5 volumes complete. Bound in printed cloth over [25.6 x 21.4 cm] boards with thongs. Entitled (roughly) "Demon Sketchbook". The Asuras of the title are the warrior gods of Indian religion, condemned to constant strife. The book is a deeply bitter and ironic look at the politics and social scene of the World War I era, not only in Japan itself, but around the world. As such it is an amazing slice of life during and after the world war from the unique perspective of a Japanese humanist given to Swiftian excess. The author (and illustrator), Ito Chuta, was an architect and gifted caricaturist. The printer/publisher was a bit of an ironist himself, as the closing note mentions that his "National Purity Publications" ["Kokusui Shuppansha"] did not quite embody the usual "National Purity" which was being bruited about. Obviously this work is a product of Taisho liberalism. Ten or so years earlier or later, it would have never reached the light of day in a less tolerant political atmosphere. There are 500 pages of plates, each is one-half color woodcut caricature and one-half wry commentary in a combination of letterpress and woodcut calligraphy. Well-printed and interesting, the full set of 500 plates in five volumes - with the original clasped cases - is quite a find, as one only occasionally finds even odd volumes. The cases are a bit chipped, the outer boxes very unusual, the contents are quite clean, in very good overall condition., Good Stock number: 85463.
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Imprint: 1899 [EHON] Kono BAIREI, artist. BAIREI KACHO GAFU 2 vols. Tokyo: Okura Shoten, Meiji 32 [1899]. Large format books of oban-size color woodcut images, each sealed "Bairei." 37 x 25 cm (24 1/2 by 9 3/4 inches). Each of the volumes is comprised of 25 images, for a total of 50, that show birds throughout the changing seasons (vol. 1: Spring & Summer, vol. 2: Fall & Winter). The designs are fresh and lively - perhaps the finest of the large-format bird compilations of mid to late Meiji era Japan, and certainly the scarcest. This copy, a very good printing with lovely colors, has just a bit of soiling to the covers. Mitchell 217 references this printing (seen by him) as a re-issue of the Okura edition of 1883. Both issues are very unusual. Complete in a custom clasped chitsu case., Very Good Stock number: 88381.
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Imprint: 1913 [EHON] Ko^no BAIREI, artist. BAIREI GAKAN. 7 volumes, Kyo^to, Unso^do^, Taisho^ 2 [1913] We have had a copy in the past with a stamped colophon of O^saka-based Shigemoto, dated 1903. The preface is dated 1904. (The copy catalogued [at second hand?] at page 216 of Mitchell was without date). It would appear that Unso^do^ bought the blocks sometime before this issue. This copy, in the original printed paper-covered boards, is in the original chitsu clasped case and has the original Unso^do^ Pre-war price sticker for 10 yen. In any event, the volumes are very well printed in color woodcut and span the full breadth of Bairei's subjects. Well over 100 double page prints in all, each 21.3 x 26.6 cm. Complete, near fine condition, very good impressions and colors. A grand collection of designs by this important artist., Fine Stock number: 88583.
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[EHON] Kawamura BUMPO^, artist. BUMPO^ GAFU Sampen. Osaka & Kyoto: Kawachiya Kihei & Yoshida Shimbei, Bunka 10 [1813] (Bunsei 7 [1824]). Original blue-green covers with octagon design, bound Japanese-style fukuro toji, with a printed paper title label. 25.7 x 17.9 cm. 1 preliminary and 35 paginated sheets, 4 sheets of Yoshida Shimbei ads. Illustrations with light colors. The third series of a continuing work originally projected for ten volumes, which was completed in three. Good or better impressions, good colors, good condition with slight worming and soiling. There is a second colophon on the pastedown of the rear cover, this one of Yoshida Shimbei alone, dated Bunsei 7 [1824]. Thus, a fairly early printing of this work., Good Stock number: 87438.
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Imprint: 1824 [EHON] Kawamura BUMPO, artist. BUMPO SANSUI GAFU. This copy matches the one volume edition listed at Mitchell 228,9, published by Yoshida Shimbei in 1824. It has the characteristic bamboo printed covers and a printed paper title label. 25.7 x 16.8 cm. BUMPO'S PICTURE BOOK OF LANDSCAPES: 30 double-page landscape illustrations in ink and light colors. Good impressions with very minor spotting. It has some scribbles on the cover and a few internal "improvements" in black ink to a few illustrations, which is very unfortunate as it is by no means a common book in good impression. Sold with all faults. $650.00, Good Stock number: 87451.
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[EHON] Kawamura BUMPO^, artist. BUMPO^ GAFU Sampen. Osaka & Kyoto: Kawachiya Kihei & Yoshida Shimbei, Bunka 10 [1813]. (Replaced?) blue-green covers, no title label, bound Japanese-style fukuro toji. 25.8 x 17.7 cm. 1 preliminary and 35 paginated sheets, 4 sheets of Yoshida Shimbei ads. Illustrations with light colors. The third series of a continuing work originally projected for ten volumes, which was completed in three. Good or better impressions, good colors, good internal condition, covers a bit soiled and worn., Good Stock number: 87539.
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Imprint: 1807 [EHON] Kawamura BUMPO, artist. BUMPO GAFU Zen. Osaka & Kyoto: Yanagihara Kihi and Yoshida Shimbei, Zodiacally dated Bunka 4 [1807]. 31 sheets, 30 double page illustrations, most with light colors. Original blue-grey covers with octagon design, bound Japanese-style, fukuro toji, with a printed paper title label. 26.0 x 18.0 cm. The first series of a continuing work originally projected for ten volumes, which was completed in three. Good or better impressions, good colors, and good condition, save that the back cover is somewhat "skinned" and the covers and label are worn and soiled. With a four page Yoshida Shimbei advertisement bound in at the back which indicates a somewhat later date of issue for this printing [after 1813]., Good Stock number: 88591.
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Imprint: 1813 [EHON] Kawamura BUMPO^, artist. BUMPO^ GAFU Sampen. Osaka & Kyoto: Kawachiya Kihei & Yoshida Shimbei, Bunka 10 [1813]. Original brown covers with octagon-patterned covers, title label, bound Japanese-style fukuro toji. 26.1 x 17.7 cm. 1 preliminary and 35 paginated sheets, 4 sheets of Yoshida Shimbei ads. Illustrations with light colors. The third series of a continuing work originally projected for ten volumes, which was completed in three. Good or better impressions, good colors, good condition overall. With a descriptive label laid down on the front cover, done by a Western collector that references Brown. Very collectible example of this book., Good Stock number: 88592.
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Imprint: 1855 [EHON] Seki BUNSEN, artist. BUNSEN GAFU. Osaka: Kawachiya Kihei, Ansei 2 [1855]. Dark blue covers, printed paper title label, string-bound Japanese style, fukuro toji, 22.2 x 15.9 cm. Corresponds to example "D" in Mitchell pp.232-3. Interesting and skillful lightly colored designs by Bunsen. The cover label is very worn, the covers are abraded and there is some thumbing and worming to the contents, but overall still an acceptable copy in good impression and colors. In a clasped clasped chitsu case. Complete as issued., Good Stock number: 87459.
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Imprint: 1812 [EHON] Nakabayashi CHIKUTO^. CHIKUTO^ GAKO^, 2 vols. Kyo^to & Nagoya, Bunka 9 [1812]. 18.2 x 26.2 cm., string-bound, Japanese-style fukuro-toji. Resembles the copy at Mitchell p237., save that it has a green title page on the front inner pastedown and an 11 page Hishiya Magobei advertisement for books, dated the first year of Bunsei [1818]. Good b+w and sumi-shaded bunjin style images by Chikuto^ [1776-1853]. Good condition in clasped chitsu case. By no means a common book., Good Stock number: 87821.
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[EHON] KITAO KEISAI MASAYOSHI. (CHO^JU^; JINBUTSU; SANSUI) RYAKUGA-SHIKI 3 vols. To^kyo^, Yoshikawa Ko^bunkan, n.d. [1890s?] String-bound, Japanese- style, fukuro-toji. Original blind-patterned green cobvers with printed paper title labels. 24.7 x 18.2 cm. These three color-printed woodblock versions of the famous Raykugashiki by Keisai Masayoshi still retain their original Kansei and Bunka colophon dates, along with the Yoshikawa additions. My supposition would be that the hangi blocks were in the hands of Ko^bunkan for a while in mid to late Meiji before being taken over by Unso^do^, who issued several printing all through the 20th century. We have handled several printings by Unso^do^, but this is the first Yoshikawa Ko^bunkan version we have handled. The Landscape [SANSUI] volume has some foxing, the other two are clean in and out. As the poriginal blocks were quite bold, they have held up well, without loss of much detail. y goood condition. Stock number: 88745.
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[EHON] KEISAI Masayoshi, artist. CHOJU RYAKUGASHIKI. Edo, Kyoto, Nagoya & Osaka. Originally published in Edo by Suharaya Ichibei in 1797, this more darkly colored undated version may well be from the mid-19th century. The undated rear inside cover pseudo-colophon lists 10 bookshops as sales agents, 4 in Edo, 3 each in Kyoto and Osaka. Light blue kara-zuri decorated covers, string-bound Japanese style, fukuro-toji, with a printed paper title label. 24.9 x 17.6 cm. Overall this later printing is helped by the fact that the designs are bold and simple - the printings remain crisp. Elephants, frogs and falcons; bugs, fish and mythological beasties - they are depicted with economy and humor. Perhaps the most unusual and creative of all Masayoshi's RYAKUGASHIKI (simple drawing books). The covers are a bit soiled. The contents are in very good condition, fair to good impression. Great fun! For a complete copy online, see the NYPL copy at http://digitalgallery.nypl.org/nypldigital/dgkeyse archresult.cfm?parent_id=743601&word=, Good Stock number: 87525.
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Imprint: 1895 [EHON - FAIRY TALES] BARBATOU, P. CHOIX DE FABLES DE LA FONTAINE. 2 volumes in 1. Tokio: MDCCCXCIV. Imprimerie de Tsoukidji-Tokio. (Printer: Kimura Tokutaro^; First Series, printed September 20th, published September 30th; Second Series, printed October 10th, published October 20th, Meiji 27 [1894]. Large format plain paper book, bound with the original covers into a contemporary Western style half leather binding. The first volume is 20 X 30 cm, with 14 double page color woodcuts by Kano Tomonobu, Kajita Hanko, Kawanabe Kyo^sui, and Okakura Sho^so^ called for. The "deuxieme serie" is similarly bound, 20 x 30 cm, with 14 prints by the four previously listed artists, along with Eda Sadashiko. This work, with its French text and literary origins, may be placed in the mainstream of an emerging international style in Japan. Yet it may be still be seen as squarely in the tradition of the Japanese illustrated book. It shares many of the characteristics of the revival of Japanese picture book printing in general at the end of the 19th century: an emerging Nihonga style which was an amalgam of theme and technique from East and West, skilled printing, increasingly restrained coloration, etc.. An interesting document of East-West cultural and artistic accommodation, which gave rise to such hybrid vigor in world art. The bound-in covers and contents are perfect. However, the leather binding is worn and was rebacked at some point. The two volumes, complete, and bound as one. Stock number: 38944.
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[EHON] Katsushika HOKUSAI, artist. DOCHU GAFU, Zen. Kogetsudo Bunsuke, Nagoya, 1835 [sic]. 22.6 x 15.8 cm. Orange covers, printed paper title label. 34 sheets of double page illustrations, covering views on the Tokaido road. As Matthi Forrer devotes an entire chapter to the publishing history of this book in his EIRAKUYA TOSHIRO, it should be sufficient to state that this is the variant Kogetsudo issue, with only part of the banner present at Kawasaki. Hence it probably dates from the 1850's or 60's. The colors throughout are very light. Though the book is complete in its original covers, it is quite worn and thumbed. Despite the poor condition, it still shows why this is one of the loveliest of Hokusai's books. Stock number: 47248.
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[EHON] HOKKEI/HOKUSAI. DO^CHU^ GAFU 2 vols. Nagoya: Eirakuya To^shiro, n.d. [c.1865-70]. String-bound, Japanese style, in orange covers embossed with the Eirakuya design and a printed paper title label, 22.7 x 16.2 cm., together in a clasped chitsu case. A very pleasant copy, printed in light colors, of an interesting book with a long and complex bibliography - so complex that Matthi Forrer devoted the first chapter of his book on the Eirakuya Toshiro publishing firm to its explanation. The copy at hand would appear to be the second Eirakuya iteration, hence the fourth edition, after the first private printing around 1820, followed by the second edition [first commercial] by Eirakuya, and the third edition by Kogetsudo Bunsuke. Among the changes effected through the years was the addition of a preliminary double-page plate by Hokusai. The original designs by his student Hokkei were repackaged as Hokusai's work thereafter. Our copy has, as a bit of an anomaly, a bound in copy of the A1 Eirakuya ad page, which originally appeared in about 1820 and could have no real connection to this edition of some 45 to 50 years later. In any event, an interesting anachronism. The printing is fair to good throughout, and its condition is quite good overall. Complete, and by no means a common book in decent condition and impression such as this., Good Stock number: 87467.
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[EHON] Katsushika HOKUSAI. EHON TEIKIN ORAI Zen. Nagoya: Eirakuya Toshiro. N.D. [Probably 1840's - originally published in 1820's]. 22.7 x 15.6 cm. String-bound, Japanese-styel, fukuro toji. Each of the three volumes consists of thirty sheets, making for a total of 90 sheets and nearly 200 Hokusai designs - landscapes, genre scenes, historical vignettes, fish, flowers, etc., etc. This guide to domestic behaviour with its charming illustrations is by no means common. Our copy is bound three volumes in one (as the Eirakuya editions are) with the original covers and printed paper title label. The Eirakuya editions, of which this is an early example, reprinted the volume one, done some 20 years earlier by Eijudo of Edo, but then added two more volumes worth of new material. Our copy is a Forrer F-23a, without the second preface, thus probably dating from the late 1840's. The impressions in the first volume are good only, but are better in volumes two and three, as you would expect from the work's bibliographic history. All in all a remarkable archive of images. The blue-green covers are bit soiled, there is a wormtrack through the first few pages, but overall in good condition., Good Stock number: 70341.
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Imprint: 1766 [EHON] Tsukioka Settei. EHON SAGASHIGUSA [ONNA BUYU YOSO-OI KURABE]. Edo: Suharaya Mohei & Osaka: Ono Kihei, Meiwa 3 [1766]. 3 vols in one, string- bound Japanese-style in later covers with brushed title label. 26.8 X 18.4 cm, appears to be complete as gappon. Settei here signs himself Tsukioka Masanobu. One of the finest and most powerful of the mid-18th century ukiyo-e masters. The line is virile, the compositions daring - a thoroughly satisfying work - BUT, though it has been repaired, many of the illustrations (at least a fifth of them) have been irremedially damaged. The first printing was issued in Horeki 6 [1757], but this issue is also every well printed. Very scarce work - few copies are located in KSSM., Fine Stock number: 83282.
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Imprint: 1768 [EHON] Kitao SHIGEMASA. EHON KAGAMI GUSA 2 vols. 21.5 x 15.4 cm. Original flower-printed covers with original printed title labels. N.D., printed by Nishimura Genroku. A book with the same title (but written with differfent Kanji) is cited in KSSM as published in Meiwa 5 [1768] but from a different publisher and in three volumes. The Nishimura Genroku catalogue at the end of our volume 2 lists the current book EHON KAGAMI GUSA (with the proper Kanji) as complete in 2 volumes. One might assume that this work is actually a different work from the one which appears in the KSSM with the same (pronunciation of the) title by Shigemasa, as another work advertised by Genroku in the book catalogue at the end of our volumes as "to be printed soon" actually appeared in the late 1780s. So, I would date this volume as appearing in the late 1780s, when Shigemasa was in his 40s, rather than much earlier in his career. A lovely book on a small scale populated with historical and contemporary figures with an innocence and a "look" reminiscent of Sukenobu. Slight internal soiling, good sumi-e impressions throughout. Internally complete collation. Obviously very scarce and interesting, especially as this is the Bing collection copy., Good Stock number: 86292.
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