Frog a wooing von chamberlain (2 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: Near fine. Elegant fine-press limited edition of the classic English folk song, drawing on Japanese aesthetics in bookbinding and paper choices. 5.75'' x 6.25''. Original green pictorial boards, string-bound, fukuro-toji ("bound pocket book" style). Illustrated by Chamberlain with full-page wood engravings facing each page of text, with borders and ornaments printed in green and yellow. Printed on Sekishu paper. [24] pages. One of 125 numbered copies signed by Chamberlain. Faint marginal sunning to boards. Tight and bright.…

43/125 COPIES printed on Sekishu Japanese paper and signed by the artist, 7 full-page wood-engravings, head and tail designs repeated in green on each text page and title design and a decoration (printed in yellow), all wood-engraved by Sarah Chamberlain, pp.[21], oblong 8vo, original pale green boards, stab-bound with green thread, design of reeds (printed in green) and butterfly (in yellow) to upper board, the butterfly alone to lower board, slight sunning to borders, tail edge untrimmed, very good.…