Prints - Japanese. BLOCK PRINTING & BOOK ILLUSTRATION IN JAPAN by Louise Norton Brown. Routledge/Dutton, London & NY, 1924. Folio, linen over paper covered boards (linen and leather spine label newly replaced). 261pp., 43 plates, 18 in color, and "copious indexes of titles and artists. A very handsome production containing important scholarship on the history of book illustration and printmaking in Japan, from its beginnings through the early 20th century. Binding restoration as noted above, a 1 1/2 in. tear in the margin of the frontispiece, else a very nice copy.
