IRIS KAEMPFERI, WOODBLOCK PRINTS, C.1890

Estimate

500 - 800 GBP

Sold

6,000 GBP

bidding is closed

Description

An album of 50 hand-coloured woodblock prints of irises on Japanese paper. [Tokyo: Yoshinoen-Garden c.1890]

Oblong folio (410 x 298mm.), later stitched wrappers, preserved in modern half-morocco portfolio, last sheet frayed and torn; sold as a collection of plates not subject to return