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San Francisco: Book Club of California; Grabhorn Press, 1965. Limited edition. Hardcover. Near fine. Folio. [i-xiv] [1-22] pp. Quarter parchment with green and light-green decorated paper boards, title in gilt on spine, title-page in black, green and yellow, opening initial letter of the introductory essay in green and yellow, twelve numbered color plates (not included in pagination) from the collection of Edwin and Irma Grabhorn. Finely printed letterpress in handset Goudy Modern type, machine made paper. One of 450 unnumbered copies. Light soil at the center of the spine else this is a fine copy. The Book Club of California's publication for Christmas 1965. Presents the pictures of Kitagawa Utamaro (1783-1806), an eighteenth-century Japanese artist that dealt with the process of silk culture, and the handiwork of women who were responsible for all aspects of making silk. The images together form one continuous composition, and are known as the "Silkworm Series". BCC no. 121; Grabhorn… Read More

London: T. Davison for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown, 1817. First edition. Hardcover. Very good. Two volumes. 8vo. Half leather, marbled paper boards and endpapers. Spines with gilt titles. Top edges gilt. Contains: Syr Tryamour, Syr Isenbras, Syr Degore, Syr Gowghter, The Hye Way to the Spyttell Hous, The Schole House of Women, The Defence of Women, The Proude Wyues Pater Noster and The Wife Lapped in Morels Skin. The first couple and last couple of pages in both volumes have a stain along the bottom edge , the leather and board papers are rubbed else this is a very good set. Francis Palgrave's copy, with his signature on the title page of volume one dated 1841. And with the bookplates of printer John Frank Connor in each volume.