Twelve Woodblock Prints of Kitagawa Utamaro: Illustrating the Process of Silk Culture with an Introductory Essay By Jack Hillier Reproduced in Facsimile from the Originals in the Collection of Edwin & Irma Grabhorn
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Twelve Woodblock Prints of Kitagawa Utamaro: Illustrating the Process of Silk Culture with an Introductory Essay By Jack Hillier Reproduced in Facsimile from the Originals in the Collection of Edwin & Irma Grabhorn Details
Printed in an edition limited to 450 copies printed by the Grabhorns. Wentz p.132; Harlan no.652 . The originals of the woodblocks are from the Grabhorn collection of Japanese woodblock prints. Title page and first page of introduction printed in three colors: The title and initial letter of the text in blue, a design on the title page and the initial letter accented in mustard yellow. The woodblock prints were carefully reproduced by collotype by Meriden Gravure, and Irma Grabhorn cut the linoleum blocks for coloring the plates. As in the previous volumes in the series, the prints have been exquisitely produced. This is one of the last books printed by the Grabhorn Press, and in fact the last us of the Grabhorn wood block color printing technique. It is the last book from the Book Club of California to bear the Grabhorn Press name in a colophon. Unpaginated. quarter parchment with decorated paper-covered boards.. folio. Read more
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