Grass Blades from a Cinnamon Garden - illustrated book

 

Lilian May Miller

  1895 - 1943 (biography)

1927  

color woodcut 

book: 9 L x 6 W x 7/16 D"; images: various 

unsigned; initaled in the blocks, lower left 

not stated 

typeset throughout; Japanese colophon 

 

cover wraps: red laid backed with gold-flecked orange laid; signatures: delicate, fibrous cream wove; prints: heavy cream laid 

published 

The Japan Advertiser, Tokyo 

17666 

$850.00 

A handbound 8vo book of verse written by Miller, with original folding portfolio hardcover wrap fastened by bone and silk-ribbon loop clasps. Includes 88 pages of hand-set type and four tipped-in original color woodcuts. The poems are reprinted by the artist with permission from the editors of ASIA and The Japan Advertiser.