Author: DICK, STEWART,
Title: Les Arts et Métiers de l'Ancien Japon. [First french language edition, translated, reviewed and adapted from the original english, including a new preface, by Raphael Petrucci]>
Description: Bruxelles-Paris, Vromant, 1914. Small stout 8°. Original wrappers. Covertile in bold black type, large coloured illustration after a woodblock colour print in centre. Hftitle (verso with publ. notice).183pp. Captioned coloured frontispiece, monochrome publ. device on ti.-pl., 35 captioned monochrome plates, illustrating num. specimens of japanese arts and crafts, 16 captioned monochrome plates after drawings featuring japanese garden design and flower arrangement, extensive descriptive list of plates and illustrations, publ. advert. on lower outer cover, table of contents. FIRST EDITION of this french language survey describing arts and crafts of ancient Japan: pottery and porcelain, woodblock colour printing, architecture, inro, woodcarving, lacquerwares, noh masks, kimono and other textile arts, garden design and flower arrangement..Untrimmed copy. (spine with a modern cloth strip, ex-lib. stamp and large red coloured pencilled signature, two library tickets on front side, f.e.p., french title and margins with some minimal foxing, some occasional marginal markings).

Keywords: asia japan arts crafts culture heritage history survey tradition inro prints lacquer porcelain pottery fareast architecture textiles