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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 Hans Schmoller.
- Schmoller, Hans.
- Date
- 1984
- Books
About this work
Publication/Creation
Newtown [Pa.] : Bird & Bull Press, 1984.
Physical description
x, 43, 24 pages, 3 unnumbered folded leaves of plates, 50 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 29 cm
Notes
"Five hundred copies of this book have been printed ... " (colophon)
Includes text of the Parkes reports, issued as no. C-400 in the series of British Parliamentary Command Papers, together with colour reproductions of the 19 watercolors forming inclosure no. 3 of the reports
Includes reproductions of illustrated pages from Jihē Kunisaki's Kamisuki chōhōki, Osaka, 1798
Issued in a case, with an extra suite of the watercolour reproductions in a portfolio
Copy 1 Supplier/Donor: Akers Note: Private press collection. Copy no. 13. Prospectus included
Bibliographic information
Bibliography: p. 42-43.
Languages
- English
Where to find it
Location Status Access Closed stores/SCH