//, Japanese woodblock prints, Books/Seiichirō Takahashi. Harunobu [春信] / English adaptation by John Bester (Masterworks of ukiyo-e, №6). — Tokyo; Palo-Alto, CA: Kodansha International, ©1968.

Seiichirō Takahashi. Harunobu [春信] / English adaptation by John Bester (Masterworks of ukiyo-e, №6). — Tokyo; Palo-Alto, CA: Kodansha International, ©1968.

Hardcover volume from the series Masterworks of ukiyo-e, 26.5 x 19.1 cm, bound in unprimed canvas, red characters on black strip to front 春信, red and black lettering to spine, cream embossed endpapers, in a pictorial slipcase with series design (black lettering on silver spine); pp: [1-6]: h.t./frontis. (colour plate pasted in), t.p./imprint, contents/blank), 7-30 text, [2] faux-title, 33-96 (66 colour plates w/captions).

Title-page (in frame): MASTERWORKS OF UKIYO-E | HARUNOBU | by Seiichirō Takahashi | English adaptation by John Bester | {publisher’s device} | KODANSHA INTERNATIONAL LTD. | Tokyo, Japan & Palo-Alto, Calif., U.S.A | {vertical, between rules 春信} ||

Series: Masterworks of ukiyo-e, № 6.

Contributors:

Seiichirō Takahashi [高橋誠一郎] (Japanese, 1884 – 1982) – author.

Suzuki Harunobu [鈴木 春信] (Japanese,  1725 – 1770) – artist.

John Bester (British, 1927 – 2010) – adaptation.

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