Author: Captain F. Brinkley
Title: Japan and China: Their History, Arts and Literature
Description: London, T. C. and E. C. Jack, 1903-1904. Cloth. An attractive limited Library Edition of Captain F. Brinkley's historical, artistic and literary study of Japan and China, with colour plates. The library edition of this series, being a limited edition of 500 copies for the United Kingdom. This set is number 134. Complete in twelve volumes. Uniformly bound in the original red cloth, with decorative gilt to the spines. A pleasing set of these fascinating studies of Japanese and Chinese culture, comprising volumes 1-8 on Japan and volumes 9-12 on China. From Anglo-Irish newspaper owner, editor and scholar, Francis Brinkley, who resided in Meiji period Japan for over forty years. He is subsequently the author of numerous works on Japanese culture and art, as well as an English-Japanese dictionary. Adorned with illustrations in colour, duo-tone and monochrome, comprising photographic plates as well as line drawings and other illustrations. With seventeen plates to volume I, sixteen to volume II, eighteen to volume III, seventeen to volume IV, sixteen to volume V, eighteen to volume VI, thirty to volume VII, twenty-one to volume VIII, nineteen to volume X, nineteen to volume XI, and sixteen to volume XII. With a large folding map to the rear of volume XII. Collated, complete. Uniformly bound in the original red cloth, with decorative gilt to the spines. Externally, very smart. With light rubbing and bumping to the extremities, and fading to the spines' cloth. The odd mark to the boards and spines. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are generally bright and clean, with the odd spot, and offsetting to the endpapers. Very Good . Ill.: Not Stated. Very Good .
Keywords: Japan China Arts World History China Captain F. Brinkley Colour Plates Not Stated
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Title: Japan and China: Their History, Arts and Literature
Description: London, T. C. and E. C. Jack, 1903-1904. Cloth. An attractive limited Library Edition of Captain F. Brinkley's historical, artistic and literary study of Japan and China, with colour plates. The library edition of this series, being a limited edition of 500 copies for the United Kingdom. This set is number 134. Complete in twelve volumes. Uniformly bound in the original red cloth, with decorative gilt to the spines. A pleasing set of these fascinating studies of Japanese and Chinese culture, comprising volumes 1-8 on Japan and volumes 9-12 on China. From Anglo-Irish newspaper owner, editor and scholar, Francis Brinkley, who resided in Meiji period Japan for over forty years. He is subsequently the author of numerous works on Japanese culture and art, as well as an English-Japanese dictionary. Adorned with illustrations in colour, duo-tone and monochrome, comprising photographic plates as well as line drawings and other illustrations. With seventeen plates to volume I, sixteen to volume II, eighteen to volume III, seventeen to volume IV, sixteen to volume V, eighteen to volume VI, thirty to volume VII, twenty-one to volume VIII, nineteen to volume X, nineteen to volume XI, and sixteen to volume XII. With a large folding map to the rear of volume XII. Collated, complete. Uniformly bound in the original red cloth, with decorative gilt to the spines. Externally, very smart. With light rubbing and bumping to the extremities, and fading to the spines' cloth. The odd mark to the boards and spines. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are generally bright and clean, with the odd spot, and offsetting to the endpapers. Very Good . Ill.: Not Stated. Very Good .
Keywords: Japan China Arts World History China Captain F. Brinkley Colour Plates Not Stated
Price: GBP 595.00 = appr. US$ 849.65 Seller: Rooke Books
- Book number: 922Y48
- Book number: 922Y48
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