Search Results: the pictorial arts of japan with by anderson william

Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, 1886. Book Hardcover. Very Good. A very good copy. Descriptive protective leaf to plate 32 is loose. Leather if spine scuffed top and bottom and along joints. A handsome copy very heavy volume. Extra postage may need to be charged.

London: Sampson Low, Marston & Co, 1886. Hardcover. Good- (shelfwear to covers, rear cover detached, pages have expected age toning, instances of foxing spots, stamp from art museum on borders of most plates). Bound in half brown leather and green cloth boards. Front cover has red and gilt lettering with black illustrations, spine has 5 raised bands, all edge gilt, illustrated end papers, XIX, 276 pp with bw illustrations; 80 plates in bw and color. Each plate accompanied by guard sheet illustrated on one side with descriptive letterpress on the other side. In five sections, each preceded by half-title, not included in paging. Contents include: Section I. General history -- section II. Applications -- section III. Technique -- section IV. Characteristics. Chinese art. Korean art.

London: Sampson Low, Marston & Co, 1886. Hardcover. Good (shelfwear to covers, front cover detached, bookplate inside front cover, pages have expected age toning but are otherwise clean and clear). Bound in half brown leather and green cloth boards. Front cover has red and gilt lettering with black illustrations, spine has 5 raised bands, all edge gilt, illustrated end papers, XIX, 276 pp with bw illustrations; 80 plates in bw and color. Each plate accompanied by guard sheet illustrated on one side with descriptive letterpress on the other side. In five sections, each preceded by half-title, not included in paging. Contents include: Section I. General history -- section II. Applications -- section III. Technique -- section IV. Characteristics. Chinese art. Korean art.

London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington. VG+. 1886. Hardcover. Hardback in Very Good+ condition without dust jacket. Folio 13" - 23" tall. With numerous illustrations. Bound in full red leather. Solid binding with slight rubbing to board edges. Very clean inside with little no page foxing. May require extra postage. . * Quick Shipping * All Books Mailed in Boxes * Free Tracking Provided * .

Boston And New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Company. VG+. 1886. Hardcover. Hardback in Very Good+ condition without dust jacket. Folio 13" - 23" tall. With numerous illustrations. Bound in pictorial green cloth. Solid binding. Slight foxing to endpapers and corners lightly bumped and rubbed. May require extra postage. . * Quick Shipping * All Books Mailed in Boxes * Free Tracking Provided * .

Boston; New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1886. Cloth. Good. 17" by 12". Various. A scarce four volume work on Japanese art, by William Anderson, fully illustrated throughout. Illustrated throughout with numerous plates and vignettes demonstrating examples of the art. 39 of forty plates to volume III. Part IV has sixteen plates, of those listed to the 'List of Plates' to the contents, this work is lacking plates 19,38,39 and 40. To plate 35 of volume III the headpiece has been cut from the descriptive leaf. Further cuts to the leaf. Would appear the plate has also been removed and then loosely inserted is an image by Kikycgi Yosai of Yamato Takeru, the image intended to be this plate. Written by William Anderson, an English surgeon and important Japanese art collector and scholar. Anderson was the first chairman of the Japan society and in 1881 the British museum acquired of 2000 Japanese and Chinese paintings from Anderson. The same year as this work he wrote his Descriptive and Historical… Read More