Raimono (3 results)

kartoniert gutes Ex. 339 S. cDinA5.

Strasbourg, Doulssecker le Pere, 1735. Small 8vo. Contemp. full calf. Richly gilt spine. Titlelabel with gilt lettering. A paperlabel pasted on upper part of spine. Stamps on title-page. Engraved portrait as frontispiece. (16),469,(19) pp., 3 engraved plates. Internally clean and fine. Klaus Jordan, 2573. …

Color-printed illus. on each page. 19.5; 20.5 folding leaves. 12mo (126 x 93 mm.), orig. finely woodblock color-printed pictorial wrappers, new stitching. [Japan]: mid-Edo. A splendid and beautifully preserved example of an illustrated ?raimono, a book of popular learning. "Another very substantial market, which catered to the growing need and demand for literacy, was that for the popular educational works known as ?raimono. These have had a poor survival rate and have hitherto been treated in a bibliographically cavalier manner [= ignored], but it is clear that they were produced in many parts of Japan for local use and that by the early nineteenth century they were a substantial part of the market for print."Kornicki, The Book in Japan, pp. 139-40. This delightful ?raimono is an illustrated travel guide covering all of Japan. The information is rather impressive; local trades and products are depicted. The upper wrappers are a fine example of a tsuzuki e cover ????, one image depicted on two or more covers in a continuous format, but each cover's image complete in itself. Tsuzuki e were often produced as ukiyo-e prints. Our booklets are color-printed throughout in simple tints of blue, gray, pink, yellow, red, and green. Not found in WorldCat. According to NIJL, there were two editions (1784 and 1856); ours is undated. Very fine and fresh copy. Preserved in the original publisher's wooden box, with printed title-slip on lid.…