Clark Worswick Text (12 results)

Cloth. Oblong 4to, 149 pp., b/w plates. Light wear to head of spine, previous owner blind stamp. Jacket faded at spine, lightly edgeworn. Near Fine in Very Good Dust Jacket.

Oversized Hardcover. Condition: Good.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Contents Include: The Meiji Period and Japan's Response to the West; Photography in Nineteenth Century Japan; Notes; Description of Photographic Processes; Index of Commercial and Amateur Photographers. Card covers. Good to good+ tight condition with slight wear to cover edges and corners. 151 pages. Language: eng Language: eng 0.0.…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition. Tight, bright and unmarred. DJ shows light shelf wear, one small, closed tear, else bright and clean. Black paper boards, gilt lettering, in blind decorative elements, red marbled endpages. Small, oblong 4to. 149pp.

HC. 151pp ISBN 0517533766 Leslie Hamilton Wilson, a successful Scottish businessman with a passion for photography, moved naturally through upper-class Edwardian society (of which he was a part) and documented its preoccupations and pastimes with an unerringly artistic eye. very good w/good dustjacket (hardcover). B&W illustrations (illustrator).…

Cloth. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Poor. First edition. Oblong 8vo, 151 pp., b/w plates throughout. Head and heel of spine bumped, dampstain at heel. Interior clean and unmarked except for previous owner's blind stamp on front free endpaper. Jacket worn, chipped, stained.

Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. First edition 1978, first printing. Published by A Pennwick / Crown book. Hardcover in full cloth with DJ. Condition new, square tight and clean book, corners not bumped, no edgewear, no names, no underlinings, no highlights, no bent page corners, not a reminder. DJ near fine, bright, no tears, no chips, few small scratches and couple of small spots, price not clipped. Oblong 4to, 151 pages, illustrated throughout with historic photographs. Heavy book will require additional postage for international orders. …

Condition: Fine. 1978 first edition. Pennwick. Hardcover oblong 4to. 149p. Fully illustrated. Fine in Near Fine dj (price not clipped).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. English text.; Hardcover (with dust jacket).; 1 kg.; 29 x 24 cm.; 151 pages with black and white illustrations.; Used with signs of wear on the exterior and interior. The exterior shows minor edge wear and minor scuffs ans scratches on the front cover, spine and back cover. Two tiny tears, one on the top left side of the front cover and the other on the rear of the back cover. Interior with minor signs of wear.; With the elegance, discrimination and knowledge that distinguished his two recent and brilliantly received albums of nineteenth-century photographs of Asian life, The Last Empire and Imperial China, the photo-historian Clark Worswick now gives us this landmark photographic album of Japan from 1854-1905. The beauty and fierceness of that country's almost medieval nineteenth-century society is revealed in 120 extraordinary photographs by the remarkable Euro- pean and Japanese photographers of the day. In this book-which includes 16 pages in full color reproducing the artfully hand-tinted photographs the Victorians loved-we see the splendor that marked the final years of the Tokugawa shogunate and the first, often curious, images of Westernization that heralded Japan's transformation from an insular, feudal country to a modern world power. Here are the faces, the costumes, the manners, the professions of that time, the landscapes, the countryside, the city streets, the interiors rich and poor. The development of a Japanese vision in photography can be attributed to a heterogeneous mix of talents- European as well as Japanese. Among those represented here: Felix Beato, an Italian military photographer who was the first, and the most important, European photographer in Japan and who extensively documented the last years of the old regime; Baron von Stillfried, an Austrian nobleman who later bought out Beato's firm and whose dramatic studio portraits were characterized by a grave beauty and a singular intensity; and, in an astonishing modern mode, the two leading Japanese photographers of the time, both of them trained by and in many ways surpassing Beato and Stillfried. One of them, Kusakabe Kimbei, the protégé of Stillfried, perfected the art of the psycho- logical portrait and became the great Japanese photographer of the nineteenth century; the other, Ogawa Isshin, the most successful society photographer of nineteenth-century Japan, whose exquisite portraits are best considered in the context of a renaissance of traditional, spiritual Japanese art.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Included. oblong 4to. pp. 149. profusely illus. in b/w. bds. dw.(chips, short & long tears along top edge, spine sunned & rubbed).

Black and white photographic illustrations, 151pp, notes, appendix, bibliography. 23.5 x 28cm. A prior owner's details front pastedown, backstrip insect damaged and a little worn, internally very clean, a good copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Included. 4to. pp. 163. numerous full-page illus. cloth. dw.