j hillier introduction (9 risultati)

Hardcover. Two volumes in oatmeal cloth, contained in a similar paper covered boards slipcase. Vol. 1: xvi, 287 pp. with one fold-out and a few color plates amongst 142 works listed and illustrated. Vol 2: pp. 288 - 567, listing and illustrating works 143-291, followed by an index and bibliography, with a few additional color plates but mostly bw. A very impressive presentation of a wonderful collection. 2 volumes in a slipcase, very nice shelf appeal. VG in paper slipcase, cracked at rear base, some foxing to spines.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. First Edition. Two hardcover volumes in slipcase. Routledge & Kegan Paul (for the Minneapolis Institute of Arts), 1970; same date on title and copyright pages, no later printings indicated. Bindings are tight, sturdy, and square; tan burlap boards in VG condition, corners sharp; brown/gilt titling on spines is very lightly rubbed but otherwise remains bold; illustrations, photos and text very good throughout. Slipcase in G+/G condition, due to damp staining on two panels; gilt titling and color plate on front panel remains bright and bold; minor wear to edges/corners. Due to the size/weight of this book extra charges may apply for international shipping. Ships from Dinkytown in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

paperback. Condizione: New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title!

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 4to. 2 vols. xvi, 567pp. 291 plates, 72 in color. Original cloth, slightly worn. With slipcase, bottom repaired.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. 1st Edition. A gorgeous pair of large, cloth covered hardback books, with gilt title impressions, set in block brown box, positioned nicely on the top half of the spine. Two volumes, part 1, 286 pages, and part 2, pages 291 to 567. Both books come with a lovely brown box, slipcase. The books are in fabulous condition, normal wear and marks apply consistent with use and age. A few thumb marks to edge of papers, from use, both books have a brown coloured top edge to top end of papers. All pages, text and stunning illustrations are in really good, clean, readable order. Printed in the Netherlands by Joh. Enschede en Zonen Haarlem, on Mellotex Smooth High White Paper, the colour illustrations in four colours offset, the black and white illustrations in sheet-fed gravure, th text in letterpress in Monotype Bembo. Photographs by Carroll T. Hartwell, Curator of Photography at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts. Designed by B. de Does. First published in 1970. Please note that these books are large and heavy, therefore postage may increase from listed price, depending on final destination. Outstanding well catalogued, beautifully presented and would grace any stylish library. A must have collection for any person interested in amazing Japanese paintings and prints.

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. English text.; Hardcover (cloth without dust jacket - as issued; 2 volumes, lacks the slipcase).; 23.5 x 31 cm.; 3.4 kg.; 567 pages with black and white and a few colour illustrations.; Used with signs of wear on the exterior and interior. The exterior shows wear marks, edge wear, scuffs and scratches on the front cover, spine and back cover. Interior with signs of wear throughout, namely some minor wear marks throughout. The bottom of the first page of volume 1 and 2 has a stamp with a date. Wear marks at the top of the first pages of volume 2. Remaining interior in very good condition on both volumes.; "The purpose of this catalogue is to make available to all lovers and students of Japanese art the paintings and prints gathered together by Mr and Mrs Richard P. Gale in a life- time of collecting. The 'Beautiful Girl' picture, assuredly one of the chief delights of Ukiyo-e, was one of the Gales' own especial favourite kind of picture. Some of the greatest works of this type have found their way into the collection, including paintings that were already famous in Japan and illustrated in the leading art publications of that country before they were acquired. The catalogue gives details of prior illustration, but here might be instanced the superb Eishun 'Courtesan fixing Her Hair', the Moromasa 'Courtesan of Iseya', and the Suio 'Standing Courtesan', all masterpieces well known in Japan for many years before they were secured for the collection. The other crucial factor, opportunity, can be seen operating in the acquisition of a great number of the Harunobu, Utamaro and Hokusai Prints from the collection of Louis V. Ledoux, upon whose death in 1948 part of the collection was disposed of by Roland Koscherak. There are probably larger Harunobu collections elsewhere in private hands, and certainly in some public institutions, but none of them, I feel sure, can show such a high proportion of really great prints from the point of view of design and condition as prevails in the Gale collection. The same factor of opportunity-though not merely chance-must account for the three Enkyo large heads and the two Kiyonaga triptychs, all in pristine state. Perhaps, finally, I should mention another aspect of the collection which gives it an exceptional character among the major private collections of the world. It comprises both paintings and prints of the Ukiyo-e masters, whereas other collections are confined either to one or to the other. It follows that this catalogue is an opportunity to study the work of the masters in both mediums, painting and print, side by side in large-scale illustrations, a feature which must distinguish it from other catalogues of a similar kind, over and above the excellence of the objects themselves. The collection has comparatively few works outside the genre and Ukiyo-e sphere, but such examples as there are hint at the diversity of styles of painting in Tokugawa Japan and provide a reminder, by their direct contrast, of that wider world of art of which Ukiyo-e was only one aspect and in its day - however hard we may find it to believe - of least account." excerpt from the introductory text by Jack Hilier.

Hardcover. Size: 9x12.25 inches, 567pp., illus. Both volumes are in as new, clean, tight and bright condition without dust jackets but housed in very good lightly sunned cardboard slipcase that has a split at the top back edge.

Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Two large quarto volumes in publisher-issued slipcase. Color and B&W plates. Condition: upper corner of front cover of Vol. II bumped; else fine in fine slipcase. Pages: xvi, 567 (both volumes combined).

31x23cm. First edition. Two uniform volumes in slipcase. Catalogue of one of the world's important collections of later Japanese art. ppXVI,286 & (6),291-567,(1); with numerous monochrome & colour plates, glossary, bibliography, and index. Brown top edges. Oatmeal cloth bindings, backstrips titled in gilt against brown backgrounds. No dust jackets as issued. Paper-covered card slipcase, with gilt title "Gale Catalogue" and laid-down colour plate on one side-panel. Binding of Vol. 1 with upper corner shared by backstrip and front cover lightly bumped, otherwise a FINE set in FAIR+ slipcase quite secure, but bumped at one upper corner of open end, and with five closed, near-closed and open splits along edges of lengths ranging from 2cm to 14cm. Heavy item, overseas shipping at cost.