Professor William Watson (39 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: None. 365 pages, more than 400 illustrations, over 120 in colour. Catalogue of The Great Japan Exhibition, held at the Royal Academy, London, in 1981. A widely ranging catalogue covering painting, calligraphy, wood-block prints, books and albums, lacquer, ceramics, armour, sword blades and mounts, sculpture, netsuke and textiles. Bibliography, glossary.

Softbound. Condition: VG. Color illustrated glossy wraps. 365 pp., over 400 bw illustrations and a load of color plates. Catalogue features 412 items, all of them illustrated and annotated.

Hardcover. 256 p.; 17 cm. (Home university library ; 90) Good orig. green cloth. Spine chafed, and chipped at foot.

paper wrappers. Condition: V.g. 365pp, illustrated. Lower margin a little stained on first section of book not affecting text. A good reference book.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Weidenfield & Nicolson, London, 1982. Book Condition : Very Good. a very clean copy. Superb illustrations and photographs. Royal Academy of Arts Exhibition London, 1981--1982. Heavy book may incur extra postage. Book will be sent by UK postal service. Inventory #015922.

Paperback. Condition: Fair / Good. 365 pages. Spine covering has been re-glued, 3cm splits to front hinge-ends taped, reading crease to spine, 12cm diagonal crease to top rear corner. Water staining to bottom areas of preliminary pages, ink name to flyleaf o/w pages clean and tidy. Moderate wear to spine-ends, edges and covers' corners. B&W illustrations throughout.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good+. First Edition. Large format paperback. perfect bound. 365 pages. Appendices include lists of Japanese Historical Periods and Era Names (nengo) of the Momoyama and Edo Periods; Bibliography, Glossary and Indices of Lenders and Artists. A superb catalog of the exhibition held at the Royal Academy of Art beginning in October of 1981 and ending in February of 1982. First edition. The catalog includes over 400 objects, loaned from Japanese collections and supplemented by the British Museum, most illustrated in either monochrome or color, with lucid descriptions. No previous ownership marks. A single crease to center of spine, else a fine copy. Very good+. A large heavy book, Priority and International orders will require additional postage, calculated as close to actual cost as possible.

Hardcover. Condition: Good ++/Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dustjacket. 1st Thus. NO DUSTJACKET. Volume Five. Preliminary pages + 232 pages.B&W illustrations. No dustjacket. Dark green hardback binding with light green titles, age-dulled gold-coloured titles to spine with simple white Celtic-like roundals to front and spine and bottle-green background in vertical bands to the front board, and bottle-green spine and back board. Moderate wear to boards' corners and spine-ends. Ink names and dates (1933 and 1950) to back half-title page. Browning, foxing and spotting to early and late pages, page-edges are browne and some marks to pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Good ++/Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dustjacket. 1st Thus. NO DUSTJACKET. Volume Three. Preliminary pages + 232 pages. B&W illustrations. No dustjacket. Dark green hardback binding with light green titles, age-dulled gold-coloured titles to spine with simple white Celtic-like roundels to front and spine and bottle-green background in vertical bands to the front board. Bottle-green spine and back board. Moderate wear to boards' corners and spine-ends. Ink names and dates (1933 and 1950) to back half-title page. Browning, foxing and spotting to early and late pages and page-edges are browned, some marks to pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Good ++/Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dustjacket. 217 pages. Colour plates and B&W illustrations. No dustjacket. Moderate forward lean to hardback binding. Dark green-blusih tone hardback binding with yellow titles, gold-coloured titles to spine with Celtic-like roundals to front and spine. Light/moderate wear to boards' corners and spine-ends. Light browning to page-edges and light foxing to the early and late pages o/w pages clean and tidy.

Hardcover. Condition: Good ++/Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dustjacket. 224 pages. Colour plates and B&W illustrations. No dustjacket. Dark green-blusih tone hardback binding with yellow titles, gold-coloured titles to spine with Celtic-like roundals to front and spine. Light/moderate wear to boards' corners and spine-ends. Light browning to page-edges o/w pages clean and tidy.

Hardcover. Condition: Good ++. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dustjacket. 1st Thus. NO DUSTJACKET. Volume Four. Preliminary pages + 234 pages. B&W illustrations. No dustjacket. Dark green hardback binding with light green titles, age-dulled gold-coloured titles to spine with simple white Celtic-like roundels to front and spine and bottle-green background in vertical bands to the front board. Bottle-green spine and back board. Moderate wear to boards' corners (bottom corners knocked) and spine-ends. Ink names and dates (1933 and 1950) to back half-title page. Browning, foxing and spotting to early and late pages and page-edges are browned, some marks to pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Good ++/Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dustjacket. 232 pages. Colour plates and B&W illustrations. No dustjacket. Dark green-blusih tone hardback binding with yellow titles, gold-coloured titles to spine with Celtic-like roundals to front and spine. Light/moderate wear to boards' corners and spine-ends. Light browning to page-edges, light foxing to early and late pages o/w pages clean and tidy.

Hardcover. Condition: Good ++/Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dustjacket. 217 pages. Grey front free endpaper has been cut out. Colour plates and B&W illustrations. No dustjacket. Dark green-blusih tone hardback binding with yellow titles, gold-coloured titles to spine with Celtic-like roundals to front and spine. Light/moderate wear to boards' corners and spine-ends. Light browning to page-edges and light foxing to the early and late pages o/w pages clean and tidy.

Hardcover. Condition: Good ++. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dustjacket. 1st Thus. NO DUSTJACKET. Volume Six. Preliminary pages + 217 pages. B&W illustrations. No dustjacket. Dark green hardback binding with light green titles, age-dulled gold-coloured titles to spine with simple white Celtic-like roundals to front and spine and bottle-green background in vertical bands to the front board. Bottle-green spine and back board. Moderate wear to boards' corners and spine-ends. Ink names and dates (1933 and 1950) to back half-title page. Browning, foxing and spotting to early and late pages and page-edges are browned, some marks to pages.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. Copy in illustrated card wraps. Catalogue published for the exhibition at the Royal Academy 1981-2. Free of inscriptions. Clean text with colour and b/w plates.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. Tight Firm Clean Copy - First Edition - One Signature Of Previous Owner On Ffp/Half Title Page. Photo Illustrations. Laminated Pictorial Soft Card Cover With Titles To Spine And Front - Slight Edge Wear And Rubbing. Spine Is Creased Slightly From Book Being Opened And Read.

Hardcover. Condition: Good ++. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dustjacket. 237pages. Colour plates and B&W illustrations. No dustjacket. Dark green-blusih tone hardback binding with yellow titles, gold-coloured titles to spine with Celtic-like roundals to front and spine - a few small marks to front boardand twp small ones to back board. Moderate wear to boards' corners and spine-ends. Light browning to page-edges, light foxing to early and late pages o/w pages clean and tidy.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 365pp-collation is a bit random but complete, coloured and Black and white illustrations, bibliography, lenders, artists, trustees. Double column text. Art of the Edo Period 1600 - 1868. Glazed paper (photo shows wrinkles, you will get wrinkle free copy). New.1.6kg.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. FAST Despatch by First Class Royal Mail.

Quarto softcover (VG); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book may reduce your overall postage costs.

Hardcover. vi, [2], 409 p.; 5 halftone pl.; 23.5 cm. John Wordsworth, Anglican bishop of Salisbury, 1843-1911. Bibliography, [397]-402 Good orig. maroon cloth. Spine spotted and dull.

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. First Edition. A near mint book in light card photographic covers. Internally near mint, neat note to half title page; lavishly illustrated. A lovely copy.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Slight fading to spine. Light shelf wear to extremities.

Hardcover. Condition: New. 1st Edition. This copy is in new, unmarked condition and is in a bespoke binding, three quarter tan calf with raised bands to five compartments with bright gilt title to a red panel in the second. The sides are in red Morocco, there are red and gold silk head and tailbands, there are pale blue endpapers. This copy is bright, tight, white and square. A dust wrapper is not called for. International postal rates are calculated on a book weighing 1 Kilo, in cases where the book weighs more than 1 Kilo increased postal rates will be quoted, where the book weighs less then postage will be reduced accordingly. This large book weighs in at 1.75 Kgs. This book is a catalogue of a monumental exhibition held in 2 parts in 1981 & 1982. There are four authoritative essays preceding the catalogue which includes Painting, Calligraphy, Wood-Block Prints, Lacquer, Ceramics, Armour, Sword Blades, Sword Mounts, Sculpture, Netsuke and Textiles. Ref DFC 2.

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. First Edition. Pictorial card covers, 4to, pp.365, colour plates, bw ills. Catalogue published to accompany the exhibition of the title held at The Royal Academy in 1981 and 1982. Useful appendices include explanations of Japanese historical periods and era names, bibliography, index of artists. The Royal Academy exhibition covered items from woodblocks, paintings and calligraphy through to ceramics, armour and swords etc. with nearly 100pp of full page colour prints. A clean and sound copy with a little wear only. A heavy volume weighing c1600g when suitably wrapped, which will require extra postage at cost over the default quotation for 1000g if to be sent overseas or by 1st class UK post ( 2nd class not affected ).

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. 8.5 x 11"; 365pp; illustrated laminated card covers; fully illustrated with colour and b&w; very good copy; Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Book.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Type: Book Crease to rear cover corner.Small label inside cover.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Faint stain to upper exterior corners, moderate age toning to pages, chipping to paper spine label. 384pp. Book.

Folio (28cm. tall x 21cm.). 365pp. Exhibition catalogue. Colour and black & white plates. In original colour printed card covers. Crease on back cover, else a very good to near fine copy.