Author: SCHMOLLER, HANS.
Title: Mr. Gladstone's Washi. A Survey of Reports on the Manufacture of Paper in Japan. The Parkes Report of 1781.
Description: 1984. . Newtown, Bird & Bull Press, 1984. 500 copies. 4to. x,43,(i)pp. 50 plates (19 coloured and 3 folding) together with a duplicate suite of the coloured plates, an excellent copy in orig. qtr. morocco, bound by Gray Parrot with leather corner tips and decorated paper sides which reproduces a pattern from a paper in the Parkes Collection of the Victoria and Albert Museum, the duplicate suite of plates are in card folder and the whole work contained in a stout slipcase.*This work reprints the rare and important Parkes Report on the Japanese Paper Industry compiled for the British Government in 1871. It is preceded by a study of other European writers on Japanese Paper and concludes with a fine facsimile of the woodblocks of the Kamisky Chohoki..

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