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EP Publishing Ltd, Yorkshire, England, 1975. Reprint. Hardcover. Very Good Condition/Very Good. A history of Japanese prints. With 56 illustrations and a frontispiece. During a period of a little more than a hundred years, roughly delimited by 1742 and 1858, there were produced in Japan large numbers of wood-engravings, printed in colours; these have of late come to occupy an almost unique place in the esteem of European art-lovers. So great is the importance now attached to these works that the Japanese public of earlier days, for whose delectation they were designed, would be astounded could they witness it. Just as obscure Greek potters moulded for common use vases that are to-day treasured in the museums as paradigms of beauty, so the coloured broadsheets, whose immediate purpose was to give pleasure to the crowds of the Japanese capital, have taken in the course of years a distinguished rank among the beautiful things of all time. -- Chapter 1 Size: 8vo - over 7¾" -…
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- Title Chats on Japanese Prints
- Author Arthur D. Ficke
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition Reprint
- Pages 456
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Not Avail, Yorkshire, England
- Date December 1976
- ISBN 9780715810910 / 071581091X
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 11117
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