Japanese sample book with 72 numbered textile samples with small decorative designs (komon) printed by stencil (katagami) mounted on 26 pages. Probably from the Kyoto textile dealer Imamura Shinsuke. Untitled. One volume, complete, 17x23,5 cm, ca. 1870-1890. Very good conditions. For a discussion on this kind of book see the chapter by Nagasaki Iwao, Designs for a Thousand Ages: Printed Pattern Books and Kosode in Gluckman & Takeda, When Art Became Fashion Kosode in Edo-Period Japan. New York 1992, p.111-112.