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20 Japanese Cigarette & Tobacco Wrappers, 98 Japanese Match Box Labels, 1911
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20 Japanese Cigarette & Tobacco Wrappers, 98 Japanese Match Box Labels, 1911

by Artwork and Branding Contrast Tradition & Modernity, Europe & Japan, Free Trade & Monopoly

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Traditional Japanese accordion-fold notebook, 6 x 9 inches; eight leaves with labels pasted on each side; 20 cigarette & tobacco wrappers on versos, 98 match box labels on rectos, front and back covers lightly stained; one matchbook label loose, two empty places in matchbox section.
The labels and wrappers in this album (dated Meiji 44 [1911] on the cover) present several thematic strands. The design and branding of the match labels, produced by a multitude of small companies, are clearly rooted in the nineteenth century (or earlier),whether their overall presentation is Japanese or European (or a mix). Nothing about them could be construed as "modern." In contrast, the tobacco and cigarettes, all products of the national government monopoly, exhibit a logic in their aesthetics and branding that involves tradition and modernity, East and West. The brands of loose tobacco, the most traditionally Japanese product and the one most associated with "the Floating World," are all named after flowers (think… Read More
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Two Early Sixteenth Century Editions of Classical Histories, One Edited by Erasmus
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Two Early Sixteenth Century Editions of Classical Histories, One Edited by Erasmus

by Attractive Editions of Quintus Curtius and Orosius

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Quintus Curtius Rufus, De rebus gestis Alexandri Magni. Cum annotationibus D. ErasmiFolio. [4], LXXXIX leaves; [10], 124 pages. Late sixteenth (?) century leather; light scuffing, hinges cracked but cords holding tightly; insect damage to text block with loss of text throughout; margins in Orosius trimmed close, affecting title image. First printing of Erasmus' critical edition of Quintus Curtius. This first century Roman biography of Alexander the Great was an early Renaissance bestseller, with editions from at least a dozen printers throughout Europe by 1517. Erasmus brought it as reading material on a voyage to England in 1517, and finding the text incomplete and corrupt, he prepared his own critical edition. This was first published by his friend Strasbourg printer Matthias Schürer in 1518. Erasmus' version proved so popular that five more printers had issued their own editions of his text by 1541; these in turn were reprinted a total of five more times by 1575. This first edition is… Read More
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