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Schmoller, Hans. MR. GLADSTONE'S WASHI. Bird & Bull Press, Newtown, 1984.
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First edition. Hardcover. 11 1/8'' x 8 1/2''. This is copy number 111 of an edition of 500 copies. Half leather over boards. Slipcase is toned with light wear.
Seller: Lost Horizon Bookstore, Santa Barbara, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Description: 500 copies. Morocco-backed handmade paper-covered boards, portfolio of prints laid in to slipcase. Some toning to spine of portfolio and edge of slipcase, fine with short split lower edge of slipcase
Seller: Herland Books, Denver, CO, U.S.A.
Price: US$160.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Quarter morocco with leather spine label gilt and decorated paper-covered boards, slipcase, 4to., x, variously paginated, illustrated. One of 500 numbered copies printed from Van Dijck paper and handmade Japanese Torinoko Gampi for the woodcut facsimiles by Henry Morris. Extra set of the colour prints in a portfolio. Bound by Gray Parrot. A fine copy with the spine of the portfolio and edge of the slipcase sunned.
Seller: Entropy Books, Ferndale, MI, U.S.A.
Price: US$187.50 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: 4to 11" - 13" tall; Copy #378 of 500. Beautiful condition with the extra suite of plates laid in. In a fine slipcase.
Seller: Circle City Books, tucson, AZ, U.S.A.
Price: US$190.00 + shipping
Condition: As New
Description: x, 43, 24 pages, [3] folded leaves of plates, [50] pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 29 cm. Bird & Bull Press, 1984. 4to. Fine. 2 volumes, in slip cover. Clean, unmarked pages. Fine binding and cover. Hardcover, softcover and slip case. 1/2 leather by Gary Parrot. One of 500, limited edition. Includes reproductions of selected pages of Jihe Kunisaki's Kamisuki chohoki (Osaka, 1798), being those pages with illustrations. Includes text of the Parkes reports, issued as no. C-400 in the series of British Parliamentary command papers, together with color reproductions of the 19 watercolors forming inclosure no. 3 of the reports.
Seller: Sequitur Books, Boonsboro, MD, U.S.A.
Price: US$198.00 + shipping
Description: 8vo. quarter morocco with sides based on a fine decorated paper in the Parks Collection. 134 pages plus 3 fold-out illustration and a separate suite of color prints in a portfolio, all enclosed in a slipcase. Limited to 450 copies (Heaney A38), of which this copy is numbered '6 HM'. A fine copy in very lightly faded (uneven) slipcase. Sir Harry Parks was sent to Japan by W.E. Gladstone, the English Prime Minister, to gather information on Japanese papermaking. His report, along with a large selection of handmade paper was sent to England in 1871, there soon buried. Hans Schmoller was told about this important cache of historical information in the 1970s and put together a fascinating history of Parkes, the German scientist, Engelbert Kaempfer, and accompanied the history with reprints of both the Parkes report and Kaempfer's description of Japanese papermaking, the first such report. Also reproduced are twenty full size color reproductions of Japanese watercolors depicting papermaking. Each copy of this book also has an extra suite of these plates in a separate portfolio. quarter morocco with sides based on a fine decorated paper in the Parks Collection
Seller: Oak Knoll Books, ABAA, ILAB, NEW CASTLE, DE, U.S.A.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: 3 fold-out illustrations and a separate suite of color prints in a portfolio, all enclosed in a slipcase. Quarter morocco with sides based on a fine decorated paper in the Parkes Collection. Schmoller has accompanied the history with reprints of both the Parkes report and Kaempfer's description of Japanese papermaking, the first such report. Also reproduced are 20 full size color reproductions of Japanese watercolors depicting papermaking. Each copy of this book also has an extra suite of these plates in a separate portfolio. Bound by Gray Parrot. Number 421 of an edition limited to 500 copies. Fine condition. Thirty Years of Bird & Bull #A38. Quarter morocco with sides based on a fine decorated paper in the Parkes Collection.
Seller: Four Rivers Books, LLC, Boulder, CO, U.S.A.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Description: Accompanied by 20 numbered colored prints in a gray folding paper slipcase. Bound by Gray Parrot in half morocco, cover papers based on a fine decorated paper in the Parkes Collection. Both book and prints are preserved in the publisher's board slipcase. Very fine copy.
Seller: James S. Jaffe Rare Books, LLC, ABAA, Deep River, CT, U.S.A.
Price: US$275.00 + shipping
Description: Quarto. Quarter morocco and marbled paper over boards by Gray Parrot. Plates and facsimiles, with separate portfolio of loose plates. Trace of sunning to book spine and to spine of portfolio, otherwise a very nice copy, near fine, in somewhat sunned and rubbed slipcase. First edition. One of five hundred numbered copies printed on Hahnemühle paper, with the facsimile woodcuts printed on Japanese paper.
Seller: William Reese Company - Literature, ABAA, New Haven, CT, U.S.A.
Price: US$281.25 + shipping
Description: Edition limited to 500 copies (this no. 223), 4to, pp. x, 43, [1], followed by a facsimile of the Parkes report, 19 facsimile water colors (depicting 20 figures), and facsimile leaves of the papermaking manual Kamisuki chohoki; original maroon morocco-backed decorative paper-covered boards, black morocco label on spine. Accompanied by a separate folio with an extra suite of the 19 watercolors; together in the publisher's slipcase; fine. Henry Parkes was sent to Japan to survey the Japanese paper-making process in 1869. The paintings included were commissioned specifically for this report and were likely copied in part from Kamisuki chohoki. Bird & Bull Thirty A38.
Seller: Rulon-Miller Books (ABAA / ILAB), St. Paul, MN, U.S.A.
Price: US$295.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Copy No. 117 of an edition limited to 450 copies for sale. 8 ¼ in. x 11 in. 134 pp. plus 3 fold-out illustrations. Quarter-bound in morocco with tips and decorated paper over boards. British P. M. Gladstone sent Sir Harry Parks to Japan to gather information on Japanese papermaking. Parkes sent in his report with samples of paper, but it was filed and became lost. Schmoller re-discovered the report and samples. This book is a facsimile of Parkes' work, including twenty full-size color reproductions of Japanese watercolors depicting papermaking. The book also has an extra suite of these plates in a separate portfolio. Prospectus loosely laid in. Enclosed in a slipcase. The book and the portfolio and its contents are fine. Some edges of the slipcase show a little fading; otherwise it too is fine.
Seller: Peter Keisogloff Rare Books, Inc., Brecksville, OH, U.S.A.
Price: US$345.00 + shipping
Description: Quarto. x, 49, 24 pp. + (31)ff. One of 500 copies. Contains three foldout plates, nineteen color reproductions of Japanese watercolors, and 30 illustrated facsimile pages of an eighteenth century Japanese papermaking manual. These woodcut facsimiles are printed on handmade Japanese gampi paper and bound-in. Includes a history of the Western discovery of Japanese paper, and the full texts of two nineteenth century accounts of Japanese papermaking, one of them the "Parkes Report." Sir Harry Parkes, Queen Victoria's Minister to Japan, was the first foreigner to be granted a private audience with the Emperor. Bound in decorated paper boards backed in red morocco, with black morocco lettering-piece. Housed in slipcase, together with an extra set of the watercolor facsimiles in a paper portfolio. Slipcase shows light toning to extemities, spine of book and portfolio slightly sunned, else near fine.
Seller: Bromer Booksellers, Inc., ABAA, Boston, MA, U.S.A.
Price: US$350.00 + shipping
Description: First edition, number 152 of 500 copies. Illustrated, including fold-out plates and 20 full-color reproductions of Japanese watercolors depicting papermaking. Also a letterpress facsimile, on Japanese paper of 30 woodcut illustrations from the rare Kamisuki Chohoki, which were used by the watercolor artist as his model. With prospectus. LACKING the portfolio of plates. 1 vols. 4to. Sir Harry Parks was sent to Japan by W.E. Gladstone, the English Prime Minister, to gather information on Japanese papermaking. His report, along with a large selection of handmade paper was sent to England in 1871, there soon buried. Hans Schmoller was told about this important cache of historical information in the 1970s and put together a fascinating history of Parkes, the German scientist, Engelbert Kaempfer, and accompanied the history with reprints of both the Parkes report and Kaempfer"s description of Japanese papermaking, the first such report. Also reproduced are twenty full size color reproductions of Japanese watercolors depicting papermaking. Heaney A38 Original quarter maroon morocco, black leather label, lacking slipcase Illustrated, including fold-out plates and 20 full-color reproductions of Japanese watercolors depicting papermaking. Also a letterpress facsimile, on Japanese paper of 30 woodcut illustrations from the rare Kamisuki Chohoki, which were used by the watercolor artist as his model. With prospectus. LACKING the portfolio of plates. 1 vols. 4to
Seller: James Cummins Bookseller, ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.