Dessin - Volumes 1 through 12

Katsuyasu Akiyama

Takamatsu City, Japan: Honranshyoku, 1985-1988. 32 pp. each volume. 2 1/4 x 2 3/8". LIMITED EDITION of 288 copies, numbers not matched. Printed cloth covers and slipcases, accordion fold pages with tissue guards laid in for most illustrations, illustrated throughout, in fine condition.

Erotic line drawings of nude women, drawn from life. A particularly scarce set, with no copies of any of the volumes located in auction records or currently in on-line marketplaces. No complete sets (which would be 20 volumes in total) noted in any of the major institutional collections of miniature books.

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