Japanese Masters of the Colour Print, A Great Heritage of Oriental Art by Hillier, J - 1954

London: Phaidon. 1954 . 2nd edition. Hardback in original dustwrapper. Beautifully illustrated, with many hand-mounted colour plates, including frontispiec. Also black-and-white illustrations. Contents; some quite pronounced spotting to endpapers. Top inner page corners lightly dented/creased thoughout, but plates unaffected. Boards in good shape, with some shelf-rubbing to edge extremities. Dustwrapper: moderate+ browning, spotting, ageing. Some moderate+ edge rubbing and creasing, more pronounced in places. Some internally closed tears/chips. With larger internal repair to rear corner, with longer closed tear and creasing. A few light blemishes. Still quite well-preserved generally. Unusual to find in dustwrapper. Price-clipped. Hinges and binding tight. A sound copy. 139 pp.

Phaidon. VG. 1954. Hardcover. Hardback in Very Good condition with Very Good dust jacket. 12.0 X 9.1 X 0.9 inches. 160 pages. Light wear along dust jacket edges. * Quick Shipping * All Books Mailed in Boxes * Free Tracking Provided * .

New York: Phaidon. Good in Good dust jacket. 1954. First Edition. Hardback. 159 pages, gray jacket with color illustration of Japanese woman in kimono in garden carrying parasol/black and white lettering; Spine/jacket in mylar/chip tear at top and bottom spine .

London: Phaidon, 1954. Hardcover. Fine/As New. Gilt lettering in a blue spine title box on brown & white floral decorated covers in a white & pictorial dust jacket, protected by a clear Mylar wrapper. History of Japanese art containing 93 illustrations, 21 of which are tipped in beautiful full color plates. 9" x 12-1/4", 139 pages. The dust jacket has a nearly invisible closed tear on the top edge, and a small chip on the same edge.

[London]: Phiadon, [1954]., 1954. folio. pp. 159. 93 illus. (some tipped-in colour). cloth. dw. (dw. edges of spine & verso scuffed). First Edition.. 1st Edition. Hardcover.

London: Phaidon, 1954. First edition. Cloth. Very Good Indeed/Very Good. 12" by 9". Various. A first edition copy of J. Hillier's fascinating study of Japanese colored prints. In a charming decorative full cloth binding in the original publisher's decorative dustwrapper. This is a first edition illustrated with numerous colour and black and white plates. Japanese prints are often regarded as one of the most popular forms of art from the East that has become known to the West, with their colourful depiction of oriental life continuing to delight Europe and America since they were first seen outside Japan in the mid nineteenth century. This text serves as a fascinating and coherent introduction to the subject of Japanese colored prints, accompanied with demonstrative colour and black-and-white illustrations and additional notes. J. Hillier is a notable historian and collector of Japanese prints, who has written many books and catalogues on Japanese drawings and prints. In a decorative… Read More