FLORIAN (Jean-Pierre Claris de). - Lot 58

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FLORIAN (Jean-Pierre Claris de). - Lot 58
FLORIAN (Jean-Pierre Claris de). Selected fables illustrated by Japanese artists under the direction of P. Barboutau. Second series. Tokio ; Paris, Marpon et Flammarion, [1895], 4° oblong, Japanese-style paperback, illustrated hardback folder (folder worn, vertical crease on cover, some traces of use). Very nice artistic publication. The Tokyo publisher is Kané-Mitsou Masao, the printer Shueisha, under the direction of Yamamoto Yeijiro. The admirable full-page illustration consists of an illustrated cover and 14 original Japanese color prints by Kano Tomonobou, Kadjita Hanko and Koubota Tosoui. All text pages are illustrated with black drawings. "These illustrations really represent scenes of Japanese life as well as if the fabulist had been Japanese." (Catalogue le Japonisme. P., Musées Nationaux, 1988, p. 112).
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