Mar 23, 2010 - Sale 2208

Sale 2208 - Lot 111

Price Realized: $ 3,360
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 3,500 - $ 4,500
BRINKLEY, FRANK, editor.
Japan, Described and Illustrated by the Japanese.
Written by Eminent Japanese Authorities and Scholars. With an essay by Kakuzo Okakura. Imported and printed for Mr. Charles T. Wills. Together, 10 volumes in lavish silk brocade, together illustrated with nearly 300 hand-colored photographs, as well as reproductions of prints and paintings and textile samples; each volume with an original work as the frontispiece. Folios, gilt-embroidered silk-covered boards with tassle ties, edges lightly worn. edition de grand luxe, one of 50 copies.
Boston, Massachusetts: J.B. Millet Company, (1897)

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The most lavish and most rare edition of Brinkley's publication.