Netsuke: A Comprehensive Study Based on the M.T. Hindson Collection
by Davey, Neil K
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- VG/VG (light bumping to boards at corners, light wear to dust jacket)
- ISBN 10
- 0856671169
- ISBN 13
- 9780856671166
- Seller
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Columbia, Pennsylvania, United States
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About This Item
London/New Jersey: Sotheby Publications, 1982. revised. Hardcover. VG/VG (light bumping to boards at corners, light wear to dust jacket). Blue cloth boards with gilt lettering on spine, glossy blue dust jacket with color illustrations and white lettering, 566 pp, profusely illustrated in bw with some color illustrations. Foreword by W.W. Winkworth. "Since its publication in 1974, this book has established itself as a standard reference work for collectors of netsuke. 1300 representative pieces from one of the most comprehensive collections ever to have been formed are discussed and illustrated, including full details of artists, schools and subjects. In this new revised edition over 100 more photographs of artists' signatures have been added, bringing the total to over 300, and greatly increasing the book's vaule for the collector. Each new signature has been carefully choses from a large selection to ensure its authenticity. In addition, 182 of the pieces are now illustrated in full color. The bibliograpahy has been expanded to include all major new books published in the intervening years."- Dust jacket.
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- Bookseller
- Mullen Books, Inc. ABAA / ILAB (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 178775
- Title
- Netsuke: A Comprehensive Study Based on the M.T. Hindson Collection
- Author
- Davey, Neil K
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - VG/VG (light bumping to boards at corners, light wear to dust jacket)
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- revised
- ISBN 10
- 0856671169
- ISBN 13
- 9780856671166
- Publisher
- Sotheby Publications
- Place of Publication
- London/New Jersey
- Date Published
- 1982
- Keywords
- European Collections ; Hindson, MT Collection ; ;
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Mullen Books, Inc. ABAA / ILAB
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