Author: Josiah Conder
Title: The Flowers of Japan and the Art of Floral Arrangement
Description: Tokio, Hakubunsha, Ginza; Kelly and Walsh; Sampson Low, Marston, & Company, 1892 . Cloth. An early edition of Josiah Conder's richly illustrated study of the art of Ikebana, or Japanese floral arrangement. This work introduced the art to the western world. First published the year prior, this early edition precedes the later revised edition of 1899.This is one of the earliest illustrated works on the art of Japanese Ikebana, or flower arranging.Illustrated with thirty-nine monochrome plates. Collated, lacking one monochrome plate, and all fifteen hand coloured woodblocks.Author Josiah Conder served as official architect to the Imperial Japanese Government. He published a brief paper on the subject of ikebana in the Transactions of the Asiatic Society of Japan in 1889, prompting this work. Ikebana, the Japanese art of flower arrangement, translates to "giving life to flowers". It' is based on the idea of bringing nature and humanity together, and is rooted in Chinese and Buddhist philosophy. In the publisher's original pictorial paper wraps. Lacking silk ties which should appear to wrap fore edges. Significant fraying to back strip, most concentrated to back strip head and tail. Major handling marks to wraps. Internally, entirely disbound. Pages bright and generally clean, with only the odd light handling mark. Lacking one monochrome plate, and fourteen hand coloured plates. Poor . Ill.: Various. Poor .
Keywords: The flowers of Japan and the art of floral arrangement Josiah Conder japanese flowers floral arrangement Josiah Conder flower arranging Various
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Title: The Flowers of Japan and the Art of Floral Arrangement
Description: Tokio, Hakubunsha, Ginza; Kelly and Walsh; Sampson Low, Marston, & Company, 1892 . Cloth. An early edition of Josiah Conder's richly illustrated study of the art of Ikebana, or Japanese floral arrangement. This work introduced the art to the western world. First published the year prior, this early edition precedes the later revised edition of 1899.This is one of the earliest illustrated works on the art of Japanese Ikebana, or flower arranging.Illustrated with thirty-nine monochrome plates. Collated, lacking one monochrome plate, and all fifteen hand coloured woodblocks.Author Josiah Conder served as official architect to the Imperial Japanese Government. He published a brief paper on the subject of ikebana in the Transactions of the Asiatic Society of Japan in 1889, prompting this work. Ikebana, the Japanese art of flower arrangement, translates to "giving life to flowers". It' is based on the idea of bringing nature and humanity together, and is rooted in Chinese and Buddhist philosophy. In the publisher's original pictorial paper wraps. Lacking silk ties which should appear to wrap fore edges. Significant fraying to back strip, most concentrated to back strip head and tail. Major handling marks to wraps. Internally, entirely disbound. Pages bright and generally clean, with only the odd light handling mark. Lacking one monochrome plate, and fourteen hand coloured plates. Poor . Ill.: Various. Poor .
Keywords: The flowers of Japan and the art of floral arrangement Josiah Conder japanese flowers floral arrangement Josiah Conder flower arranging Various
Price: GBP 120.00 = appr. US$ 171.36 Seller: Rooke Books
- Book number: 942F63
- Book number: 942F63
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