Early Japanese Family Crests Pattern Book ( Mon Kamon ? ) (Used by Tailors for Kimonos, Etc, Etc)

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Published by Unknown, Japan, 1890

About this Item

A chunky small oblong book - Ehon - measuring approx 6" x 3" in "fukuro-toji" style - folded sheets, spine open, string tied pages. Plain rust coloured padded covers, with Title strip. Covers very worn, but complete and sound. All page edges 'dusty/slightly darkened. Internally very clean. Illustrated throughout in b/w. With initial pages of script, and then divided into sections - About 280 pages in all. No date that I can spot/recognise, but I don't read Japanese, the feel of the book is definitely Nineteenth Century - maybe a little later? . Stuck onto an endpaper is the old label of an English art shop (supplier? ) = A. A. Dobson of Manchester. 'Art; Design; Librairie. Artistique Photographie'. With a name & address of a former owner in old ink written on that. Nice to have an early original copy of this. SEE IMAGES; Oblong Thick 24mo 6" x 3".

Seller Inventory # 120026

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Early Japanese Family Crests Pattern Book ( Mon Kamon ? ) (Used by Tailors for Kimonos, Etc, Etc)
• Publisher: Unknown, Japan
• Publication Date: 1890
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition: Unknown.
• Condition: Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket
• Seller catalogs:
  • Architecture. Art. Crafts
  • Anthropology. Genealogy
  • Womens Interests
  • History & Politics. Churchill
  • Folk-Lore. Myth. Legend
  • Clothes. Sewing. Needlework. Fashion
  • Antiquarian -19th Century or Earlier