Book

Name/Title

Book

Entry/Object ID

2025.6.15

Description

The Book of Delightful and Strange Designs Being One Hundred Facsimile Illustrations of the Art of the Japanese Stencil-Cutter to Which the Gentle Reader is Introduced by One Andrew W. Tuer, F.S.A. Who Knows Nothing At All About It. A Hardcover, First Edition, with real Japanese stencil-plate as frontispiece, 78 pp. of introductions with illustrations in-text (24 pp. in English, 27 pp. in German and 26 pp in French), and 104 patterns on plates (40 double-page plates with 1 large pattern, and 16 double-page plates with 4 patterns on each). Text in English, German and French. Publisher: L., P., Leadenhall Press, Baudry s.d. (circa 1880),

Acquisition

Accession

2025.6

Source or Donor

Timothy Hansen and Diane Ayres

Credit Line

Gift of Timothy Hansen and Diane Ayres

Dimensions

Width

23 cm

Length

19.5 cm