SERIZAWA Keisuke — Shinpan Ehon Don Kihoute

1975. SERIZAWA Keisuke. Shinpan EHON DON KIHOUTE. To^kyo^, Gohachi, Sho^wa 51 [1976]. Large color stencil printed ehon based on the story of Don Quixote, done as a "new version" 40 years after Serizawa's original version. The scale, the images, all are quite different from the first version. This is number 157 of an edition of only 185 copies and the edition sold out very quickly. A monumental work with 31 full-page illustrations, not counting the preliminaries and finals and the stencil-printed text. the book itself is some 40.3 by 36.5 cm and it is further enclosed in a publisher's decorated wooden box and shipping box as well. With the slim explanatory volume issued with it, thus complete. There is but the faintest of occasional foxing, truly a beautiful work, a masterpiece of post-war Japanese livre d'artiste book production. Signed by Serizawa. .