SCULPTURE OF JAPAN. FROM THE FIFTH TO THE FIFTEENTH CENTURY.
by Watson, William
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- Seller
-
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
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About This Item
London: The Studio Limited, 1959. Book. Very Good. Cloth. First Edition. Tall quarto, grey cloth covered boards with gilt spine titles. 216pp. Very generously illustrated wit 155 black and white photographs. A very tight, sound and generally very clean and unmarked volume in a tight, clean, bright dust jacket. There is light foxing to the endpapers and inside dust jacke flap and the dust jacket has moderate edgewear and a short tear near spine top. Very good in very good dust jacket..
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- Bookseller
- Brillig Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 07674
- Title
- SCULPTURE OF JAPAN. FROM THE FIFTH TO THE FIFTEENTH CENTURY.
- Author
- Watson, William
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- The Studio Limited
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1959
- Keywords
- JAPAN, SCULPTURE, EARLY, RELIGIOUS, JAPANESE, WOOD, BUDDHA, BUDDHISM, SACRED, WATSON, HISTORY, ART, SCULPTOR, MONUMENTAL, TEMPLE, SHINTO,
- Bookseller catalogs
- Art; Japan;
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About the Seller
Brillig Books
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Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
About Brillig Books
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- 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....
- 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...
- Quarto
- The term quarto is used to describe a page or book size. A printed sheet is made with four pages of text on each side, and the...
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.