Posted by Hans Olof Johansson on February 14, 2002 at 15:25:10:
In Reply to: Re: Toyokuni I - date of a print depicting Ichikawa Danjurô VII. posted by Dick Illing on February 13, 2002 at 13:27:30:
: It is a shame that Ishii Kendo's book is so rare.
: I am lucky to have a photocopy made many years ago.
: According to a footnote in F A Turk's 'The Prints
: of Japan' only three hundred copies were published.
It does seem to be very rare, but the 300 copies must surely refer to the first edition only. There are later editions too. In 1934 a revised edition was published. My own copy is from a new printing in 1968, and in the online catalogue of the Library of Congress an edition from 1994 is listed.
By the way, a copy of the first edition was recently listed in the Ukiyo-e Books catalogue no. 22. It may still be available.