AUDSLEY, George Ashdown. The Ornamental Arts of Japan, London: Sampson Low, 1882. 2 volumes, 4° (402 x 285mm). 2 calligraphic frontispieces, 70 chromolithographed plates and 35 plain plates, mostly heliogravures, all after the author. (Occasional inconspicuous spotting.) Publisher's pictorial black morocco gilt by G. L. Hoelen of Holborn, London, spines with gilt title in English and Japanese, the upper covers with a bamboo tree in gilt out of which a bird is flying over an ornate Japanese floor, above a chrysanthemum in red morocco inlay and a leaf in green morocco inlay, title in gilt in ivory morocco inlaid into the gilt floor, gilt edges (very lightly rubbed). (2)