A Japanese Nightingale / Onoto Watanna
Book
225 pages. 3 color plates and text background decorations by Genjiro Yeto.
2015.7.313
Kathleen V. Roberts Collection of Decorated Publishers' Bindings
1900s
9 in
6 in
Onoto Watanna
Genjiro Yeto
First
New York
New York
United States
North America
1901
Publisher's Binding- Japonisme
Decorative Designers
Green decorated cloth binding with darker green and pale pink decorations outlined in black depicting petals falling from flowers in an Asian stylistic motif. Gilt spine titles within a gilt ruled rectangle. Top edge gilt. Deckled edges. Assume cover to be designed by the Decorative Designers as other Watanna titles. (Possibly designed by Yeto?)
Japan