Softcover, pictorial wrappers, pp.: 1-200, il.

Foreword: A treasure trove of ukiyo-e prints / Kobayashi Tadashi
The Grabhorn ukiyo-e collection at the Asian Art Museum / Melissa M. Rinne
Edwin Grabhorn : passionate printer and print collector / Julia Meech
Figures of humans and animals : some early Japanese color prints from the Grabhorn Collection / David Waterhouse.

Edwin Grabhorn (1889—1968), co-founder of the Grabhorn Press, Northern California’s premier letterpress printer, was a pioneer American collector of Japanese prints. The Grabhorn prints in the collection of the Asian Art Museum comprise the upper echelons of the original collection. The collection includes a superb selection of early monochrome and hand-colored ukiyo-e prints by Sugimura Jihei, Torii Kiyonobu, Okumura Masanobu and others, from the seminal decades of the woodblock print production in the late 1600s and early 1700s.