The book of delightful and strange designs; being one hundred facsimile illustrations of the art of the Japanese stencil-cutter, to which the gentle reader is introduced by one Andrew W. Tuer, F.S.A., who knows nothing at all about it.

Author
Tuer, Andrew White, 1838-1900 [Browse]
Format
Book
Language
  • English
  • French
  • German
Published/​Created
London, the Leadenhall Press, Ltd.; New York, C. Scribner's Sons; [etc., etc., 1893]
Description
24, 27, 26 p. front. (stencil) illus., 104 designs on double leaves. 19 x 23 cm.

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    • English, German and French, each part having special t.-p. and separate paging.
    • On inserted slip: The issue of this (the first) edition, containing a real Japanese stencil-plate as frontispiece, is limited in number.
    Other title(s)
    • Das Buch reizender und merkwürdiger Zeichnungen.
    • Le livre de desseins charmans.
    OCLC
    418230
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