Numerous full-page woodblock color-printed illus., some with delicate embossing. 16 vols. 8vo in orihon (accordion) format, orig. gray semi-stiff wrappers with orig. title slips. [Japan]: [1760-72].

A fine and rare Japanese edition of this Chinese “masterpiece of color printing and design” (Robert T. Paine Jr., “The Ten Bamboo Studio,” Bulletin of the Museum of Fine Arts 48.274 [1950]: p. 72). The Ten Bamboo Studio Collection of Calligraphy and Painting is a book of finely printed images of rocks, birds, plants, and other motifs, along with poetry reproduced in calligraphy. The book is most famous for its use of... More