Mr Gladstone's washi
Subtitle: a survey of Reports on the manufacture of paper in Japan, "The Parkes report of 1871"
By: by Hans Schmoller.
Contributors: Parkes, Harry S. 1828-1885.; Kunisaki, Jihē, 17th/18th cent.; Parrot, Gray.; Bird & Bull Press.
Publisher: Bird & Bull Press
Published: 1984
Place of publication: Newtown, Pa
Language: eng
Number of pages: 69
Subjects: Paper industry -- Japan.; Papermaking -- Japan.
Notes: Four Japanese characters printed in brown decorate the title page.

Includes text of: Reports on the manufacture of paper in Japan, by Sir Harry S. Parkes, presented as C. 400 in the series of British parliamentary Command reports, with color reproductions of the watercolors forming inclosure no. 3 of the report.

Includes reproductions of selected pages of Jihē Kunisaki's Kamisuki chōhōki (Osaka, 1798), being those pages with illustrations.

"Five hundred copies ... printed"--Colophon.

"Composed in Van Dijck types and printed on mouldmade Hahnemühle paper ... Woodcut facsimiles ... printed on handmade Japanese Torinoko Gampi ... lithographic reproductions on Mohawk Vellum ... Cover paper ... reproduced from a decorated paper in the Parkes Collection at the Victoria & Albert Museum ... Binding ... by Gray Parrot"--Colophon.

Bound in quarter red morocco and decorated paper. Extra set of color plates included in portfolio. Both contained in slipcase.

Bibliography: p. 42-43.

Library has no. 250.