Japanese Color Prints: The Important Collection of Mrs. Adolphe Borie of New York Including Complete Sets in the First States of the Rare Hir Paperback -

Prints with a pedigree are valuable additions to a collection when they can be used as standards of comparison. The dispersal of such a collection is an event that can no longer be looked on with certainty, in view of the rapid disappearance of these fine early impressions.

An endeavor has been made to make the catalogue of permanent value by giving the accepted points which determine, as far as possible, the various states of the prints. These points have not been given the attention they deserve, but the extraordinary value of these impressions will be appreciated on comparing their early soft yet brilliant coloring, and their fine registration; with the late and careless p'rin-tings which serve only to belie designs in which the delicately printed impressions in the Borie collection are of the most surpassing beauty.

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