Picture Book of Crawling Creatures (Ehon mushi erami)

Illustrated poetry anthology: color woodblock-printed, with highlights in mica and blind-printing (karazuri); fukurotoji-bon (hybrid-pouch binding); covers with embossed textile weave, buff with brown-printed pattern of bellflowers and “seven-treasure” pattern, and with original title slips Ehon mushi erami, black-on-pink paper overprinted in red with a crimson trellis of birds and tendrils; two vols. complete, 10¾ x 7¼ in. (27.3 x 18.4 cm); [1788]


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