Description

Large format hardcover, quarto size volume bound in black cloth lettered in gold on spine, in publisher’s black dust-jacket. 368 pages. Edited by Joe Earle. Illustrated throughout with black and white photographs. First edition. The first reliable guide to Japanese inro artists containing 2,704 entires with more than 2,000 photographs. Inro are small traditional Japanese cases, “often highly decorated with various materials such as lacquer and various techniques such as maki-e,” typically referred to a a medicine case. No previous ownership marks. A clean, fresh, unread and unmarked copy, like new. As new in an as new dust-jacket.