Botany.- Japanese School (circa 1890-1910) Composite album containing 72 prints of ornamental irises and other flowers, woodblock prints with vibrant original hand-colouring, on thin Japanese paper, each leaf approx. 270 x 385 mm (10 5/8 x 15 1/4 in), some with printed numbering and identifications in English, a few with letterpress descriptions pasted onto leaves, some with faint printed lettering in Japanese, one leaf detached, some stubs where leaves have been removed, minor offsetting to a few, handling creases and surface dirt, original Japanese fabric-patterned boards with red ties, slightly worn, oblong 4to, [Tokyo, Yoshinoen-Garden, c.1890]

⁂ An impressive collection of botanical prints, probably made for a Japanese nursery. Another collection containing some of the same prints was offered at Sotheby's, London in 2019 (see: Travel, Atlases, Maps and Natural History, 14th May 2019, lot 4)