Beschreibung:

DescriptionProperty from the Japan Society Library, LondonA group of books and pamphlets on Meiji art, metalwork and the Japan-British exhibition London 1910
comprising:
Burlington Fine Arts Club, Catalogue of Specimens of Japanese Lacquer and Metalwork (London: Burlington Fine Arts Club, 1894) (see image 7)Commission Impériale Japonaise, Le Japon a l’Exposition Universelle de 1878 [in French] (Yokohama: C. Lévy, 1878)Charlotte M. Salwey, Incense & incense burners 1896-1905 (n. p. n. d.)Count Hirokichi Mutsu, Japan at the White City (London: Royal Society of Arts, 1910)Inada Hogitaro, Descriptive Catalogue of a Collection of Bronze Chinese & Japanese Mizu-Ire formed by Henry J. Pfungst (Kyoto: private, 1912)James Lord Bowes, Japanese Enamels With Illustrations From the Examples in the Bowes Collection (London: Bernard Quaritch, 1886)James Lord Bowes, Notes on Shippo: A Sequel to Japanese Enamels (Liverpool: private, 1895)Kyoto Exhibitors Association, Official guide to the Japan-British Exhibition (Derby/London: Bemrose and Sons Limited, 1910)Kyoto Exhibitors Association to the Japan-British Exhibition, Kyoto (Kyoto: Kyoto Exhibitors’ Association to the Japan-British Exhibition, 1910)Kyoto Commercial Museum, The Official Catalogue (Kyoto: Kyoto Commercial Museum, 1910)Tadamasa Hayashi, Twelve Bronze Falcons Exhibited at the World’s Columbian Exposition, Chicago 1893 (Tokyo, 1893) (see image 1, 2, 3)The Times, The Japanese Empire: reprint of The Times Japanese Edition (London: John Parkinson Bland at The Times Office, 1910)Walter Leo Hilburgh, Japanese Copper Reduction Works (School of Mines Quarterly, 1901), donated by the authorWilliam Gowland, Art of casting bronze in Japan, (London: Journal of the Society of the Arts, 1895)William Gowland, Art of Working Metals in Japan (London: Institute of Metals, 1910)William Gowland, Japanese Metallurgy: Part 1, Gold, Silver and their Alloys (London: Eyre and Spottiswoode, 1896)William C. Roberts-Austen, The Use of alloys in Art Metalwork (London: Journal of the Society of Arts, 1890), donated by the authorWillis M. Hawley, Chinese Bronzes (chart) (Hollywood: M. Hawley, 1945)[Anon.], Japan-British Exhibition of 1910: art catalogue (n. p. n. d.)[Anon.], Japan-British Exhibition of 1910: official report (London, 1911)[Anon.] Papers on Japanese Arts and Industries (Tokyo, 1889), donated by A. Lasenby LibertyCondition reportThe books are overall in good condition.
Burlington Fine Arts Club, Catalogue of Specimens of Japanese Lacquer and Metalwork (London: Burlington Fine Arts Club, 1894); some wear to the spine.
Tadamasa Hayashi, Twelve Bronze Falcons Exhibited at the World’s Columbian Exposition, Chicago 1893 (Tokyo, 1893); slightly soiled and worn.
The Times, The Japanese Empire: reprint of The Times Japanese Edition (London: John Parkinson Bland at The Times Office, 1910); slight tearing to the paper.
[Anon.], Japan-British Exhibition of 1910: official report (London, 1911); the binding is worn, pages slightly detached.
[Anon.] Papers on Japanese Arts and Industries (Tokyo, 1889), donated by A. Lasenby Liberty; cover detached.
The paper pamphlets are worn.
All the books, journals and pamphlets have library stamps, some collection labels and library numbers stuck to the spines. 
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