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[005231] Morris, Henry. Japonica – The Study and Appreciation of the Art of Japanese Paper. North Hills: Bird & Bull Press, 1981. First Edition. 8vo. Hardback. Limited Edition. Good / No Jacket (as Issued). [8], 9-66pp, 86-87pp, [7], 4-12pp, [6]. Publisher’s quarter morocco and paper over boards, bound by Gray Parrot

Spine faded (as often), one chiyogami sample split and reglued, otherwise bright and clean. Book label of Samuel R. & Marie-Louise Rosenthal to front pastedown

Number fifty-one of two hundred and fifty copies. Includes The Literature of Japanese Papermaking, Dard Hunter’s Chiyogami and Kimono Pattern Collection, Japanese Screen Papers, and Western Accounts of Japanese Papermaking. With two kimono pattern swatches on one sheet tipped in, thirty-three original samples of Chiyogami tipped in, and twenty full pages of ‘screen papers’ bound in

Heaney / Morris A32