Varieties of the Japanese Print Volume 1 (with 20 hand printed examples)

Toshi Yoshida

Varieties of the Japanese Print Volume 1 is a primer on Japanese printing. It offers twenty hand-printed examples of woodcut: each one is accompanied with a descriptive sheet in English listing the paper type, the wood, the pigments, the tools(s) used for carving, and the techniques used in printing. The woodcut examples range from black and white, three colors printed from a single block, monochrome overprinting from two blocks, overprinting from three color blocks, use of various blocks including blocks with glued elements, and printing with various types of paper.

Yamato binding with enclosed spine and decorative paper covered boards with hand-carved, hand-printed title label pasted down. Accompanied with a cardboard slipcase with the hand-printed title label.