Japanese woodblock book

Original woodblock book: Onna bampo onokage, Osaka: Itoya Ichibei, 1853, 274 pages (10 1/4 x 7 3/8 in.; 260 x 187 mm), 3 printed in colors, the others in black. Blue boards, front cover with mounted woodblock title and woodblock illustration; worn. With original early dust-jacket, in sleeve form, with color-printed woodblock, with title, on front panel and woodcut lettering on spine; lightly spotted and worn. Buckram folding case.

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