Description:
Beautiful bright red linen cloth hardcover cover boards have a silver emblem on the front board and silver text on the spine. Decorative, unclipped, wrapped edge, glossy dustjacket is in near perfect condition, as it has added thickness where it is folded over at both the top and bottom. There is no edgewear to the spine, boards or corners, which remain sharp. The binding is straight and tight, hinges are firmly attached with no cracking to the beautiful decorative end pagers. Text block is firm with all pages firmly attached. The interior pages are clean with no tears, no chips, or previous owner marks. Harold P. Stern was a world-renowned expert in the field of Japanese art and has selected the works to be included in this beautiful book "Birds, Beasts, Blossoms, and Bugs – The Nature of Japan". It covers the Heian and Kamakura, Muromachi and Momoyama, and Edo and Modern Periods of Japanese art. With text on the major periods of Japanese art and commentaries on the 177 illustrations, 86 plates… Read More
