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Lot 110
Sale 759 - Selections from the Library of Gerald and Barbara Weiner
Oct 8, 2020
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[JAPANESE BOOKS]. LUO Guanzhong (羅貫中, Luo Ben 羅本, ca 1330-1400 or ca 1280-1360) -- KATSUSHIKA Taito (葛飾戴斗, active ca 1810-1853), illustrator. -- IKEDA, Tōri (池田 東籬, 1788-1857), translator. 繪本通俗三国志 Ehon tsūzoku Sangokushi [Illustrated Romance of the Three Kingdoms]. [Osaka]: [Gungyokudō], [1836- 1841 (Tenpō 6-11)].
2 volumes (of 75 comprising volume 3 part 6 and volume 8 part 3 only), 4to. 8 woodblock illustrations by Katsushika, 6 hand-colored. Publisher’s original embossed paper, stab-sewn (some soiling and creasing, extremities rubbed, minor chipping to title label).
Japanese translation of the Chinese classic Romance of the Three Kingdoms with illustrations, some hand-colored, by a pupil of the master ukiyo-e artist Katsushika Hokusai, Katsushika Taito (sometimes known as Katsushika Taito II, as Hokusai also used the gō Taito).