Hundreds of paper samples tipped-in & several text illus. 141; 121 pp. on folding leaves. Two vols. 8vo, orig. semi-stiff wrappers, woodcut title-slip on first vol. (lacking on Vol. II), orig. stitching. [Tokyo: Privately Printed], Prefaces dated 1957.

First edition, limited to 100 numbered copies, luxuriously printed throughout on handmade paper, of this magnificent and rare paper specimen work. Seki (1892-1979), an executive at a Japanese paper company, was a leading historian of Asian papermaking. These two volumes contain paper samples — both examples of early printing as well as paper specimens — from China, Korea, Mongolia, Tibet, Burma, and... More