Bijitsu Taikan (1 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 10 inches x 15 in., title-page and texts in Japanese with contents & names of the plates in English. Divided into four sections. 100 colotype plates of Japanese fine art objects, with tissue guards. Flexible tan cloth with light violet cloth binding ties, gray-green cloth backing, metallic flecked paper label on the cover. Printed on a "Japan" vellum type paper. The tissue guards show creasing, age-related tanning. With the bookplate of William G. Mather (1857-1951), who was associated with the Cleveland Museum of Art. Scarce item. From the Preface: "The object of this publication is partly to encourage the cultivation of the fine arts in our country, and partly to hand down safely the extant specimens of monumental work to posterity. [-] We have chosen a hundred of the choicest articles from the time of the Emperor Suiko until the last part of the Tokugawa Dynasty, and printed them in colloytype to meet the demand of those who are interested in the fine arts and especially to make known the progress of Japanese art to foreigners." Weight: 2 3/4 lbs. …