![Images of Eighteenth-Century Japan, Ukiyoe Prints from the Sir Edmund Walker Collection](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/812/948/1493948812.0.m.jpg)
Images of Eighteenth-Century Japan, Ukiyoe Prints from the Sir Edmund Walker Collection
by Waterhouse, David
- Used
- Paperback
- first
- Condition
- Very Good+
- ISBN 10
- 0888541708
- ISBN 13
- 9780888541703
- Seller
-
Staten Island, New York, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Toronto, Ontario: Royal Ontario Museum, 1975. Book. Very Good+. Soft cover. First Edition. Folio - over 12 - 15" tall. Large format paperback, perfect bound folio volume in deep blue card covers with image of two Japanese women on front cover. 234 pages. Glossary, Bibliography, Index. Illustrated with 171 images of wood-block prints, 5 of which are in color. Each print bears a text description giving all known information on the piece [i.e. title, artist, etc.] and a brief commentary. First edition. An exhibition catalog to the Royal Ontario Museum's presentation "of a small but highly important part of the Sir Edmund Walker Collection of Japanese woodblock prints." [from the foreword]. Stamp of former owner's on half-title and again on page containing the foreword. Else no other markings internally. Minor creasing and curl to fore-edge corners. No spine crease. A clean, tight, fresh and unmarked copy. Very good+. A large book, Priority and International orders will require additional postage, calculated as close to actual coat as possible. .
Reviews
(Log in or Create an Account first!)
Details
- Bookseller
- Great Expectations Rare Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 019951
- Title
- Images of Eighteenth-Century Japan, Ukiyoe Prints from the Sir Edmund Walker Collection
- Author
- Waterhouse, David
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0888541708
- ISBN 13
- 9780888541703
- Publisher
- Royal Ontario Museum
- Place of Publication
- Toronto, Ontario
- Date Published
- 1975
- Keywords
- Art, Japanese Woodblock Prints - 18th Century, Exhibition Catalog
- Bookseller catalogs
- Japan; Art;
- Size
- Folio - over 12 - 15" tall
Terms of Sale
Great Expectations Rare Books
All books are described in general dealer terms and we make every effort to list descriptions accurately and conservatively. Books may be returned for any reason within 10 days. We ask that customers email us before returning items. For oversize books, multi-volume titles and sets postage will charged accordingly and customer contacted with additional postage costs.
About the Seller
Great Expectations Rare Books
Biblio member since 2005
Staten Island, New York
About Great Expectations Rare Books
We carry a general stock of antiquarian books with a focus on Charles Dickens, 19th and 20th century literature, history and biography.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
- Folio
- A folio usually indicates a large book size of 15" in height or larger when used in the context of a book description. Further,...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...