Colour-Prints of Hiroshige
Sydney, The Author, 1937.
Large quarto (442 × 335 mm), 87 pages with 62 tipped-in colour woodcuts 'of a superb quality ... 17 of which are full size, 15in. × 12in. [375 × 300 mm]' (from the author's catalogue).
Quarter vellum and cream cloth, lettered in gilt; top edge uncut; covers lightly rubbed and marked; occasional spots of foxing; some discolouration from the adhesive used to mount the plates; a few plates lightly cockled; corner of one plate creased; an excellent copy.
Number 50 of only 110 copies signed by the author, and hand-set and printed by Harrie Mortlock at the Beacon Press. Percy Neville Barnett (1881-1953) was an 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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