Japan. [Japanese motifs/pattern book], Meiji period, woodblo...

Hammer

£700

Japan. [Japanese motifs/pattern book], Meiji period, woodblock-printed, black-ruled, printed calligraphic prelims, [38]ff with designs numbered 597-688, wood-block printed and hand-coloured, some picked-out in gilt, mixed sizes, no. 689 lacking having been excised and thus making the leaf defective, some of the concertina leaves opened, original wrappers, upper-cover with titled paper label and numbered VI in manuscript, spine with later loosely applied sellotape, 8vo, four miscellaneous parts of the Shin-Bijutsukai, The New Monthly Magazine of Various Designs by the Famous Artists of To-day, n.d., Meiji period, stitched in original wrappers, 8vo, and a harlequin volume of loosely-inserted gatherings, some illustrations but mostly text, original floral wrappers, 8vo, (6)