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AUDSLEY, George Ashdown. The Ornamental Arts of Japan. New York: Scribner's Sons, 1883. 2 volumes, 2o. Numerous colored plates and illustrations in text. Contemporary blue gilt stamped half morocco and wooden boards (spine ends and corners repaired, lower corner of volume II bumped). Provenance: Young Men's Christian Association (bookplate and limitation leaf); Greenfield collection (bookplate). LIMITED EDITION number 15 of 500 sets. Featuring drawings, paintings, engravings, printing, embroidery, textile fabrics, lacquer, incrusted-work, metal-work, cloisonné enamel, modelling and carving.
[With]:
AUDSLEY, George Ashdown and Lord James BOWES. Keramic Art of Japan. Liverpool and London: Henry Sotheran, 1875-[80]. 2 volumes. Numerous plates and illustrations in text (some foxing). Contemporary calf, spines gilt (some rubbing to edges). Provenance: Greenfield collection (bookplate). FIRST EDITION. Audsley was one of the earliest British authorities on Japanese art, and many of the pieces depicted in these volumes come from Bowes' own collection. (4)
[With]:
AUDSLEY, George Ashdown and Lord James BOWES. Keramic Art of Japan. Liverpool and London: Henry Sotheran, 1875-[80]. 2 volumes. Numerous plates and illustrations in text (some foxing). Contemporary calf, spines gilt (some rubbing to edges). Provenance: Greenfield collection (bookplate). FIRST EDITION. Audsley was one of the earliest British authorities on Japanese art, and many of the pieces depicted in these volumes come from Bowes' own collection. (4)
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