104. Hakubunsha, publisher . Japanese Paintings. Children’s Sports, 13 mounted colour-printed Japanese woodblocks, 12 depicting Children playing &c., each 190 x 270 mm., on folding concertina-style gilt-speckled mounts, 2 mounts slightly worm-damaged at inner margin (not affecting images), printed title in French, English & Japanese, preface in French & English, tipped-in key to plates in English, original straw-covered boards with mounted Japanese title, oblong folio, Tokyo, Hakubunsha, 1888/7.
est. £600 – £800
A fine series of attractively and skilfully coloured woodblock illustrations, in excellent condition.