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[JAPANESE DESIGN] Albums for textile designs Kyoto?: 1930s? Two volumes, original Japanese bindings in accordion-fold with block-printed covers, titles on calligraphic labels, in wrap-around chemise. 13 x 9 inches (23 x 13 cm); each 24 color woodblock plates, plus preliminary and terminal text in Japanese. Some wear to chemise. Name of Don A. Hennessee (Tokyo, 1947) inside chemise; Together with a pair of similar albums also 1930s. Two volumes, original Japanese binding in accordion-fold with lilac brocade, titles printed on cloth. 12 1/4 x 8 5/8 inches (31 x 22 cm); each with 20 plates of color woodblock designs. Wear, one fold of an album split at the fore-edge fold, chemise present but severely defective. C