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Franklin, Collin & Tini Miura, Kerstin

Franklin, Collin & Tini Miura, Kerstin. The Private Presses. Eikoku no Shikaban. Japanese edition with layout and bookdesign by Kerstin Tini Miura. Inscribed by Kerstin Tini Miura. Einen Miura , Atelier Miura, Tokyo 1983.
Hardbound folio in gilt decorated blue linen cloth-binding. Text in Japanese in gilt up on front board and gilt, geometrical, decorations all ovet the board. In a bit sahrinkled transparent paper-cover. Housed in simpel slipcase. Fine ! The artist bookbinder Kerstin Tini Miura (earlier Bremer) has given this book it's laout and design. It's dedicated on the title-page by Einen Miura and Kerstin Tini Miura "for Gale and Marion". Both has signed in full name. The text is in Japanese with reproductions from different private press-prints: The Daniel Press, The Kelmscott Press,The Ashenden Press, The Eragny Press,The Vale Press,The Essex House Press,The Caradoc Press,The Doves Press,The Shakespeare Head Press, The Golden Cockerel press and The Greynoc Press. There is also some photodocuments of printers and printing offices.