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Mr. Gladstone's Washi: A Survey of Reports on the Manufacture of Paper in Japan, "The Parkes Report of 1871 by Schmoller, Hans - 1984

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Mr. Gladstone's Washi: A Survey of Reports on the Manufacture of Paper in Japan, "The Parkes Report of 1871 by Schmoller, Hans - 1984

Mr. Gladstone's Washi: A Survey of Reports on the Manufacture of Paper in Japan, "The Parkes Report of 1871

by Schmoller, Hans

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Newtown, PA: Bird & Bull Press, 1984. 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.
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Mr. Gladstone's washi: a survey of reports on the manufacture of paper in Japan: the Parkes report of 1871

by Schmoller, Hans

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Newtown: Bird & Bull Press, 1984. 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.
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