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Item
4267
Hokusai, Katsushika; Takai, Ranzan (ed) 
Ehon toshisen
Toshisen ehon
Edo, Kobayashi Shimbei   1833 
147pp; Illus; 23x16cm   Japanese   Stitch-bound paper   Covers discoloured

Original woodblock printed book in five volumes - an anthology of T'ang Dynasty poems. There are 52 poems with parallel Chinese and Japanese text with 48 single-page and 14 double-page illustrations. The volumes have brown embossed paper covers with title slips printed in red on cream. Impressions are fair and the condition is good. The covers have some discolouration and the title slips are faded, with that for volume 2 detached
This image is taken from volume 2
This image is taken from volume 2