京都. [Kyoto]. 芸艸堂. [Unsodo]. No date. [ 1890?]. Twelve beautiful colour woodblock prints, accordion style binding, paper covered boards, 26 x 19.3cm. Light toning/soiling to covers, but generally very good. Colour woodblock prints by Yamada Shokei (山田松渓, active 1890s-1900s) based on paintings by Nagasawa Rosetsu 長澤蘆雪. Nagasawa Rosetsu (1754-1799) was..... More

京都. [Kyoto]. 芸艸堂. [Unsodo]. No date. [Meiji 28, 1895]. 12 colour woodblock prints attractively presented in Japanese accordion style binding, attractive colour image upper cover, lower cover gives the table of contents and advertising other art albums from the same publisher. Paper covered boards, endpapers browned with a little light..... More

[Japan]. 永樂屋東四郎. [Eirakuya Tōshirō]. No date. Late Edo. (circa 1815 - 1842). Colour woodblock illustrations throughout, 21 double folded leaves, traditional Japanese 4 hole stab string binding, 23.5 x 16 cm, title label on cover little worn, covers worn and soiled, a prior owner's label upper cover, title hand-written on..... More

[ 1900?]. Sample album of designs most probably for weaving. The album contains 196 numbered paper slits for holding the design samples in place with 68 samples included. Handwritten paper tabs (some damaged with loss) attached to the edges of 17 leaves give the names of customers. Bound in cloth..... More

關口三左エ門商店, No date of publication. (circa 1930). Sixteen beautiful coloured designs for furosiki with accompanying pages showing eight different font styles. 25.8 cm x 13 cm. Original green card boards worn with a little loss and creasing, one illustration torn with a little loss, light vertical crease but overall very..... More

京都.[Kyoto]. 有文舘.[Yūbunkan]. 明治四十五 [ 1912]. 16 two-tone black and grey woodblock prints with accompanying Japanese text on opposite leaf, [31]pp unpaginated, four stab hole string binding, paper title label laid down upper cover. Covers worn and stained, extremities worn with loss. Some hold barely affecting the text one leaf and..... More

Unknown. (Showa 12 [ 1937]). Black and white illustrations, 10 + 8 + 11pp. 26.5 x 19 cm. Paper covered boards with cord ties, paper title label upper cover, corners worn with loss, lower endpaper trifle browned otherwise very good. Contains the poems of a number of land service men..... More