Japanese Art and Handicraft

Book Description

London: Yamanaka and Company, 1916. Two parts bound in one, folio. (12 1/2 x 9 3/4 inches). 214pp. text, 162 black & white plates, 8 in colour, with lettered tissue guards. Contemporary half morocco gilt, some dampstaining and wrinkling along top edge of contents, affecting mostly margins in center portion of block, scattered discreet owner's pencil notations. One of 175 numbered copies of this catalogue created for the seminal 1915 British Red Cross Exhibit. 2415 artifacts or sets of objects were displayed at this exhibition held during the height of World War I, most here illustrated including examples of netsuke, lacquer, swords, prints, drawings, ceramics, tsuba, bronze, and other metalwork. An important and scarce early text on Japanese arts and crafts.

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