Author: Terry, Charles S
Title: Masterworks of Japanese Art 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
Description: Rutland, Vermont & Tokyo, Japan: Charles E. Tuttle Company, 1956. 1956. Rutland, Vermont & Tokyo, Japan: Charles E. Tuttle Company, 1956. 1956. Good. - Quarto, 12-1/4 inches high by 8-3/4 inches wide. Bound in natural tan buckram titled in black on the spine with a vignette stamped in black on the front cover. The book is housed in its original dust wrapper with a photographic illustration of a Japanese sculpture on the front panel. The price-clipped dust jacket is soiled and rubbed with several chips and small tears to the edges and a few larger pieces torn away from the top and bottom edges of the jacket's front and rear panels. xi & 252 pages, with textual illustrations, 60 full-page black & white plates and 40 tipped-in color plates. The edges of the pages are slightly darkened, the edges of a couple of the color plates are rubbed, and a previous owner's name is penned on the front endpaper. Very good in a fair dust wrapper.

First edition.

Includes depictions of Japanese paintings, sculpture, pottery, architecture and textiles. Good .

Keywords: ART; JAPANESE; CHARLES TERRY; ILLUSTRATIONS; TIPPED-IN COLOR PLATES; MASTERWORKS OF JAPANESE ART; PAGEANT OF JAPANESE ART; 1ST EDITION; TOKYO NATIONAL MUSEUM; CHARLES E. TUTTLE; ORIENTAL; ASIAN; ASIA; JAPAN; FIRST EDITION.

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