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文華堂古書目録 第1号

1930 · 山本文華堂 · 1 picture

A 1930 Japanese catalogue of old books issued by the Yamamoto Bunkadō shop, printed in vertical Japanese text with a rare-book listing. The one picture is a printed street map of the shop's neighbourhood, with a grid of blocks, a central avenue, and small labelled buildings set among rows of Japanese characters. A designer could take its dense, orderly grid and tightly packed vertical lettering as a model for compact, information-rich layouts.

Japanese picture books (ehon)

National Diet Library, Japan (国立国会図書館) · Public Domain Mark (PDM), National Diet Library · More from this library