Hundreds of paper samples tipped-in, five plates of facsimiles, & 4 plates (which serve as paste-down endpapers). 106; 130 pp. on folding leaves. Two vols. 8vo, orig. orange semi-stiff wrappers, woodcut title-slips on upper wrappers, orig. stitching. [Tokyo: Privately Printed], colophon dated 1963.

First edition, limited to 100 numbered copies, signed, luxuriously printed throughout on handmade paper, of this magnificent and rare decorative paper specimen book. Seki (1892-1979), an executive at a Japanese paper company, was a leading historian of Asian papermaking. These two volumes contain decorative paper samples — including examples of printing and manuscripts from the earliest times... More