Process of Wood-cut Printing Explained

Published by The Shimbi Shoin Ltd., Tokyo, Japan, 1920

About this Item

Coloured, pictorial card integral wraps. Bound in two places with red silk. 46 pages:four in English explaining the origin and method of the process; two pages of the same in Japanese; then in twenty pairs of facing pages (double leaves, single-folded0 the wood-cut is built-up, e.g. the first colour and the resulting print from the first block, then the second colour and the resulting overprint from the from the second block, etc. The example wood-cut print used in the book and on the front is apparently "Ferry over the Sumida" by Kiyonaga. A price 3 Yen sticker on inside bottom corner of back wrap. Minor faults: slight tanning and slight grubiness to wraps; a very light 0.5 inch stain to top corner of blank page 7; a small tear of 0.33 inch to the bottom edge of page 9' the folded page making up wood-cut stage 11 has been detached at the gully and so could be opened out to show the blank obverse; the back wrap has some v. shallow indentations where someone has used the book as a rest when writing on something else. First published in 1916, THIS book is 1920 (a second edition) Type llla is the nearest variation: it has(no date at the end of the English intro.; it has two pages of Japanese intro. following the English one, making the book 46 pages long; the title on the front is enclosed in a box; "The Shimbi Shoin, Ltd." appears just below the coloured print on the front cover. It measure 17.4cm x 12.cm, v. slightly less than some Type llla, and the spine width is 0.9 cm. It varies at the 6th and 9th colour printing stages from Type 1 although by the end it has got back on track. There is no text printing on the page following the last wood-cut. This edition seems to be a slight variation of Type llla. Tight and genrally clean. Obviously the final wood-cut print in the book is crisper than that on the fnt. Seller Inventory # 005288

Bibliographic Details

Title: Process of Wood-cut Printing Explained

Publisher: The Shimbi Shoin Ltd., Tokyo, Japan

Publication Date: 1920

Binding: Card

Condition: Very Good

Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket

Edition: Second Edition