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Japanese Colour Prints by J. Hillier

Hillier's a bit of a pompous old twat, but this is a sound basic intro to the area. Don't we mostly buy books like this for the pictures? The Phaidon edition has 95 illos, over half in colour at A4 size, and can be found remaindered at times. Under a fiver from Amazon at time of writing.

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