The Clarence Buckingham Collection of Japanese Prints. Subtitle for the first volume: The Primitives. Subtitle for the escond volume: Harunobu, Shigemasa, Their Followers and Contmporaries

Published by Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, 1965

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Seller: McBlain Books, ABAA, Hamden, CT, U.S.A.McBlain Books, ABAA

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illustrations (a few color), vi, 284, vi, 307p. Hardcover in original cloth. No jackets (presumably as publ;ished). Matching cloth slipcase present on second volume but not the first. Gift inscription on half-title in first volume from Arthur O. Andersen to his wife Helen in the first volume.The first volume is copy no. 186 of an edition limited to 500 copies. The second volume is unnumbered and was part of an edition of 1000 copies. A sturdy and attractive set with only modest cover wear.

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Title
The Clarence Buckingham Collection of Japanese Prints. Subtitle for the first volume: The Primitives. Subtitle for the escond volume: Harunobu, Shigemasa, Their Followers and Contmporaries
Author
Gunsaulus, Helen C. [and] Margaret O. Gentles, cataloguers of these volumes with Gunsualus, the Keeper of Japanese Prints at the Art Institute of Chicago 1926-1943, having primary responsibility for the first volume and Gentles, who assumed the position of Keeper of Japanese Prints upon the retirement of Gunsaulus, resposible for the second volume
Publisher
Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago
Publication year
1965
Condition
Near Fine
Binding
Hardcover
Edition
1st ed.
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Japan, Japanese Art

McBlain Books, ABAA

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