Gray basil introduction and notes (3 risultati)

Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. 23 pages. Softcover with dust jacket. Dust jacket unclipped, with color tipped in plate on front cover, has a touch of agewear to top edge. Color tipped in plates throughout. Decorated wrapper very good, has a touch of tanning throughout from age. Previous owner's name/address blind stamped on bottom of title page. sewn/saddle-stitched binding, still tight. Beautiful plates fill this book about the art of painting Japanese screens. Record # 33113.…

Soft cover. Condizione: Very Good Plus. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. Second Impression. 1956, second impression. 24pp. Tipped in colour plates and a few b&w illustrations. Slight crimping to the front of the jacket where the illustration has been pasted on. Book and unclipped jacket otherwise in excellent condition with no inscriptions. The dust jacket is in an easily removable clear plastic protector. From 'The Faber Gallery of Oriental Art' series.…

Soft cover. Condizione: Near Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good Plus. Second Impression. 1957, second impression. 24pp. Tipped in colour plates and a few b&w illustrations. "The art of the Punjab Hill State of Garhwal is an entrancing parallel to that of Kangra. Developing in the last quarter of the eighteenth century, it exhibits the same preoccupation with courtly needs, the same delicate refinements and the same blending of poetry and romance. The work of its greatest master represents perhaps the highest level of poetic expression reached in eighteenth-century. Indian painting. In this monograph, Mr. W. G. Archer, Keeper of the Indian Section, Victoria and Albert Museum, discusses the problems posed by its sudden development and suggests the circumstances which may have prompted certain artists to settle in the State. He relates their work to earlier painting and stresses the supreme part played by the anonymous master. to colour plates illustrate some of the finest Garhwal pictures one of which (plate 5) was described in 1948 as the loveliest Indian painting ever to be shown in London.'" Slight crimping to the front of the jacket where the illustration has been pasted on. Book and unclipped jacket otherwise in excellent condition with no inscriptions. The dust jacket is in an easily removable clear plastic protector. From 'The Faber Gallery of Oriental Art' series.…