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A group of five rare books on Japanese prints
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A group of five rare books on Japanese prints
Comprising: Edwin E. Grabhorn, A Brief History of Japanese Color Prints and Their Designers, Delivered Before the Members of the Roxburghe Club of San Francisco Monday Evening April 4, 1938 by Edwin Grabhorn, San Francisco: Grabhorn Press, 1938 (50 copies), the interior inscribed in ink Special Copy No 1 for Herbert Evans from Ed Grabhorn Nov 9/38, with a tipped-in original woodblock print by Kitagawa Utamaro, an original drawing attributed to the Torii school, and two original book plates by Nishikawa Sukenobu and Kitao Masanobu respectively; Figure Prints of Old Japan: A Pictorial Pageant of Actors and Courtesans of the Eighteenth Century Reproduced from the Prints in the Collection of Marjorie and Edwin Grabhorn, with an Introduction by Harold P. Stern, San Francisco: Book Club of California (Grabhorn Press), 1959 (400 copies), 52 color plates, some fold-out; Landscape Prints of Old Japan, from the Beginning of the Eighteenth Century to the Middle of the Nineteenth Century, Illustrated from Original Prints in the Collection of Edwin and Marjorie Grabhorn, Introduction and Descriptive Text Written by Jack Hillier, San Francisco: Book Club of California (Grabhorn Press), 1960 (450 copies), 52 color plates, one fold-out triptych; Ukiyo-e "The Floating World", Illustrated by Twenty-eight Rare Examples of Japanese Woodblock Prints by Seventeen Great Masters of the Art, San Francisco: Book Club of California (Grabhorn Press), 1959 (400 copies), 28 color plates, some fold-out; and Twelve Wood-block 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 and Irma Grabhorn, San Francisco: Book Club of California (Grabhorn Press), 1965 (450 copies), 10 color plates, some fold-out
17 1/4 x 11 3/8in (44 x 29.5cm) dimensions of first
17 1/4 x 11 3/8in (44 x 29.5cm) dimensions of first