first edition Hardcover
1945 · New York
by Ledoux, Louis V.
New York: E. Weyhe, 1945. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. beige cloth spine and decorated boards, front cover paper label. Very good. Unpaginated. Folio, 36 x 26 cm. Eight plates in full color and forty-four in half tone, each with descriptive text. Limited edition, one of 400 copies. Harunobu flowered late in life, during the last six years he produced his most beautiful designs. Shunsho, one of the most powerful and dramatic artists of the popular school is known as the leading designer of actor prints in hoso-ye form -- Sharaku. Backstrip extremities, lower corners rubbed, covers and interior contents clean and fresh. (Inventory #: 18541)