Masterworks Of Japanese Art..
Bound in original beige cloth with black titles and pictorial block on front board, in cardboard slipcase with pictorial printed title. A very good copy.
£30.00
Publisher
Charles E. Tuttle Company.,
Place
Rutland, Vermont and Tokyo
Date
1959
Synopsis
Compiled and edited by charles s. terry based on the definitive six-volume pageant of japanese art edited by staff members of the tokyo national museum. fifth printing.
Item Description
Large 4to. 8.75 x 12 inches. 252 pp..
Illustrations
Illustrated throughout by 100 plates, including 40 tipped in colour plates and by 35 text figures.
Notes
Reprint of the first edition of 1956, a work based on the six volume Pageant of Japanese Art. The plates cover painting, sculpture, ceramics, textiles, lacquer ware, metalwork and architecture. The introductory survey, chronologically arranged, is by Charles Sanford Terry (1926-82), translator and academic specialising in Japanese culture.
[Stock No. 24666]
Subjects
20th Century • Art / Literature • Arts • Asia • Illustrated • Japanese