Advice needed regarding early 20th-cent book

Hello!
I have been reading a description of a book I have no access to and wondering if you could help me to understand the meaning of the description.
It says that the book was made from japonned paper. What is this? I have attempted to find out on the internet but having no luck.
Any help would be immensely appreciated!
Thank you,
Gemma

 

I have never heard the term. Japanned usually painted with enamel paint, Japonaise means in the Japanese style, but never japonned. More contest may help.

 

All I can think of right now is that the description is referring to the covers of the book, and saying that they are made of japanned paper? Which even then doesn't sound right to me. Can you provide a link to the description? Or type what it says?

 

Thank you for taking the time to reply. It's not on the internet so can't send a link, but it says that its a luxury edition (of The Sink of Solitude) made of "japonned paper bound in parchment-covered boards." Quite mysterious!

 

Hm.... that is odd.

 

Hi,
I wonder if it mulberry paper or even rice paper?
greg

 

Is this the right book? There might be several books with the same title. This one says it's covered in paper boards: http://www.abebooks.com/servlet/SearchResults?sts=t&tn=Sink+of+Solitude

I changed the link because the other was the U.K. site for abebooks. I should have asked first, where are you located?

 

I found a few others using the term, but no explanation of what they mean by it.

https://www.google.com/webhp?source...=1&espv=2&ie=UTF-8#q=what+is+"japonned+paper"

 

I notice that one of the listings in the search results above (the link that I listed) says that the boards are parchment. Another says they are "limp paper." Nothing mentioned japanning or japonning.

 

Many of the ones in that result are for the same listing, repeated across different sites. And the seller puts "japonned" in quotation marks, probably meaning that the book itself includes that word but the seller didn't know what it was?

 

I have some celluloid coat buttons backed in japanned cardboard,black backs,brown celluloid. So maybe it means black substance on the paper?

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanning

 

Thanks everyone, I appreciate your responses! Will take a look at all those links and see if I can work it out! Thanks a million

 

The last link on the Abe Books one is the right one, because there were only 250 editions. This sheds some light on it. Thanks!