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The Edward Burr Van Vleck Collection of Japanese Prints
by Elvehjem Museum of Art
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0932900240
- ISBN 13
- 9780932900241
- Seller
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About This Item
Madison, WI: Elvehjem Art Center/University of Wisconsin, 1992. Book. Fine. Cloth. First Edition. First Edition. Quarto, maroon cloth covered boards with white spine titles. 352 pp. plus Errata Sheets. An unprecedented work of art history documentation and reference. The Van Vleck collection perhaps the most important Western collection of Japanese prints and the almost 4,000 prints by 137 artists included in the collection includes the renowned Goodell Collection pluls a substantial collection of prints from the estate of Frank Lloyd Wright. This catalogue raisonne/checklist is ILLUSTRATED with thunmnail black and white images of every print in this collection (duplicates only listed but not illustrated). An exceptional work of scholarship and an invaluable ferference work for collectors and curators. This volume is tight, clean, fresh, bright, unmarked and unblemished, in a tight, clean, bright unclipped dust jacket with a couple of short closed edge tears else fine. Fine in fine dust jacket. UNCOMMON..
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- Bookseller
- Brillig Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 09173
- Title
- The Edward Burr Van Vleck Collection of Japanese Prints
- Author
- Elvehjem Museum of Art
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0932900240
- ISBN 13
- 9780932900241
- Publisher
- Elvehjem Art Center/University of Wisconsin
- Place of Publication
- Madison, WI
- Date Published
- 1992
- Keywords
- VAN VLECK, COLLECTION, COLLECTOR, REFERENCE, CATALOGUE, RAISONNE, JAPAN, JAPANESE, FLOATING WORLD, UKIYO-E, WOODBLOCK, HIROSHIGE, HOKUSAI, UTAMARO, CHECKLIST, BIBLIOGRAPHY, BOOKS ON BOOKS, ILLUSTRATION, JOURNAL, MAGAZINE, BOOK, ILLUSTRATOR, CLASSICAL, EDO
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