Item #100547 Colour Prints of Hiroshige. P. Neville BARNETT.
Colour Prints of Hiroshige
Colour Prints of Hiroshige
Colour Prints of Hiroshige
Colour Prints of Hiroshige
Colour Prints of Hiroshige

Colour Prints of Hiroshige

Sydney, The Author, 1937.

440 x 330 mm, 86 pages with 62 tipped-in Japanese colour plates 'of a superb quality ... 17 of which are full size, 15in. x 12in. [375 x 300 mm]' (from the author's catalogue).

Quarter vellum and cream cloth (both lettered in gilt), top edge uncut; vellum lightly mottled and rubbed; cloth heavily discoloured around the edges by the glue used in production; trifling light marks on the dedication page and the blank page facing it; minimal offsetting; an excellent copy (internally fine, with all plates in superb condition).

Number 20 of only 110 copies produced, all signed by the author (and hand-set and printed by Harrie Mortlock at the Beacon Press). Percy Neville Barnett (1881-1953), author, publisher and book-plate authority; in the 1930s he 'became interested in Japanese wood-block colour-prints; he imported 40,000 prints and specially designed endpapers from Japan for a series of charming books including Japanese Colour-Prints (1936), Colour Prints of Hiroshige (1937) [and] Hiroshige (1938)' (Australian Dictionary of Biography).

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