Author: WEBER, VICTOR FREDERIC:
Title: "Ko-ji hô-ten". Dictionnaire a l'usage des amateurs et collectionneurs d'objects d'art japonais et chinois. Paris 1923.
Description: . Folio. Pp. 511, (1); 509, (3) + appendices lvs (69). With five coloured full page plates and 70 monochrome full page plates. Numerous illustrations throughout the text. Original green cloth decorated in blind and gilt, calf spines lettered in gilt, hinges and extremities rubbed. A.e.g. First edition of an important and comprehensive reference work on Japanese art. It covers all aspects of the visual and three dimensional arts; ceramics, metal works, prints, Netsuke artists, famous painters, mythological and historical figures, famous sites, etc. A limited edition of 585 copies, of which this is no. 412. A heavy book. Cf Nipponalia (Kyoto Gaikokugo Dargaku) 827 (reprint N.Y. 1965).

Keywords: East Asia, japan, japanese, japon, china, chinese, chine, asia, asiatic, asien, asie, far east, east, art, design,


See more books from our catalog: East Asia