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Laurence Binyon - Painting in the Far East: An Introduction to the History of Pictorial Art in Asia, Especially China and Japan

Title: Painting in the Far East: An Introduction to the History of Pictorial Art in Asia, Especially China and Japan
Description: London, Edward Arnold & Co , 1923. Cloth. A smart third edition of this charming historical study of art across Asia, adorned with plates throughout. The third edition of this work, revised throughout. In the publisher's original cloth binding. Illustrated with a colour frontispiece and forty-one monochrome plates. Collated complete. A comprehensive study of art in Asia, including Japanese painting in the Kamakura Epoch of the civil wars, new movements in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, and Ukiyoye and the early colour prints. From Laurence Binyon, an English poet, dramatist and art scholar. He wrote several studies of Japanese and Persian arts, of which this was his first, originally published in 1908. In the original cloth binding. Externally, smart. Rubbing and bumping to the extremities, heaviest to the spine. Marks and areas of discolouration to the boards. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are generally bright and clean with the occasional spot, heaviest to the first and last few leaves. Contemporary ink inscriptions to the front free endpaper and half title page. Good . Ill.: Not Stated. Good .

Keywords: Art Asia Laurence Binyon Asia Not Stated

Price: GBP 49.00 = appr. US$ 69.97 Seller: Rooke Books
- Book number: 912Y2

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