Utamaro

London: Phaidon, 1961. First U.K. Edition. Quarto. 31cm. Publisher's brown cloth titled and decorated in cream to spine and boards with a cherry blossom design. 161pp. Light wear and scuffing to extremities and spine ends; internally clean and fresh, with 110 illustrations and 17 tipped in color plates; in a bright, clean example of the dustjacket, with some shallow cosmetic chipping at the spine ends and some light edgewear. A very good clean copy indeed.

A lavishly produced monograph on the work of Kitagawa Utamaro, a major figure in the discipline of Ukiyo-E (or "Floating World") painting and drawing.