Hiroshige

1940 · réf. 527378 — San Mateo California: The Quercus Press 1940. Unbound. Near Fine. First edition by this publisher. Pictorial broadside printed on recto only and folded twice horizontally as issued measuring 21 1/2 inches by 9 1/4 inches illustrated with a woodcut printed in black on recto only with lettering printed in red printed on laid paper with no watermark. Very good with glassine tape mends some foxing and tiny tears but the striking Japanese woodblock print is quite fresh and bright. The original woodblock print depicting a Japanese woman dressed in a kimono seated on a stool playing a musical stringed instrument. The woodblock image measuring circa 11 inches by 8 inches is printed by Ted and Fran Lilienthal at the Quercus Press from an original eighteenth century Japanese woodblock The upper and lower margins are printed in red with the following information: "Proof from an original eighteenth century Japanese woodblock" publisher's statement in lower margin beneath the woodblock print. The upper margin states: "THE SEASONS GREETINGS/ FROM/ TED AND FRAN LILIENTHAL." Unrecorded by OCLC which lists no citation for this publication. Theodore Max Lilienthal 1893-1972 in 1924 with Leon Gelber established the Gelber-Lilienthal Book Shop in San Francisco and a publishing company under the imprint Lantern Press. Mr. and Mrs. Theodore Max Lilienthal with Mrs. William C. Van Antwerp later established The Quercus Press in San Mateo California; in 1940 the press began using the Albion Press that once belonged to William Morris press was acquired from the estate of Dr. J. W. Bartlett of New York. Issued as a Season's Greetings from Ted and Fran Lilienthal. [The Quercus Press] unknown books