40. -. a Japanese erotic album, 2 pp. prefatory ms. text and 18 original drawings, pen and black ink, most with watercolour, on fine japan tissue, each mounted at corners onto heavier japan paper leaves, each c.170 x 250mm., stitched into limp boards, the upper with colour woodblock trompe-l’oeil effect of overlapping landscape views and decorative nature patterns, oblong 4to., later 19th century.
est. £200 – £300