Les Estampes Japonaises.
Paris: Librairie Hachette et Cie, 1911. viii, 272 pp. Illus. with 16 color and 133 b/w gravures. Sm. 4to. Cloth. First French edition. P. Andre Lemoisne, intro. A very good copy, scattered foxing, chips to top edge of a few leaves. Cordier: Bibliotheca Japonica 700. Item #31881
Originally published as Geschichte des Japanishchen Farbenholzschnitts (Dresden, G. Kuhtmann, 1897) by Seidlitz (1850-1922). "The French translation of this important book is so much better illustrated than either the original German edition or the one in English...The subjects reproduced are well chosen and the plates whether in color or otherwise are thoroughly adequate" (Ledoux, Japanese Prints of the Ledoux Collection).
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