Kashi Moyo. Album of Japanese Confectionary Design

Silk covered boards. Good. Oblong, 17.5 by 24.5 cm. 40 pages of hand-colored woodblock illustrations, followed by nine pages of text, in Japanese. Pages open leporello style. Generally two or three illustrated designs per page, excepting first and last illustrated pages which have a single larger illustration, the first page being of a fruit basket. Condition: silk covered boards with soiling, wear -- slightly chewed by spine. Leaves within have some flattened creasing, some staining, etc. Spine perished. Notwithstanding wear, still an attractive album, with coloring generally vivid.