Description

Large format hardcover, oblong quarto in russet boards and non price-clipped dust-jacket. 285 pages. Includes table forJapanese print and illustrated book sizes, bibliographical references, bibliography and notes on color and black and white plates presented throughout. Profusely illustrated with over 185 black and white and 16 full page color wood-block prints. Reprint edition, first printing thus, distributed by Bookthrift, New York. A celebration of Japanese erotic art which found its perfect expression in the famous wood-block prints known as Ukiyo-e shunga from the 17th to the 19th centuries. No previous ownership marks. A clean, sound, fresh and unmarked copy. Near fine in a near fine dust-jacket. Priority and International orders will require additional postage, calculated as close to actual cost as possible.