Japan: Its History Arts and Literature: Library Edition [12 Volumes]

Captain Francis Brinkley, Japan: Its History Arts and Literature, London: T C & E C Jack, 1903-04, 12 Volumes

Volume I: i, 260 pages. 13 colour plates with captioned tissue-guards. 4 full-page plates.
Volume II: ii, 286 pages. 13 colour plates with captioned tissue-guards. 3 full-page plates.
Volume III: iii, 256 pages. 15 colour plates with captioned tissue-guards. 3 full-page plates.
Volume IV: iv, 267 pages. 13 colour plates with captioned tissue-guards. 4 full-page plates.
Volume V: v, 260 pages. 13 colour plates with captioned tissue-guards. 3 full-page plates.
Volume VI: vi, 301 pages. 13 colour plates with captioned tissue-guards. 5 full-page plates. 1 double-page map.
Volume VII: Pictorial and Applied Art, vii, 396 pages. 30 colour plates with captioned tissue-guards.
Volume VIII: Keramic Art, viii, 450 pages. 20 colour plates with captioned tissue-guards. 1 full-page plate.
Volume IX: ix, 426 pages. 15 colour plates with captioned tissue-guards.
Volume X: x, 273 pages. 17 colour plates with captioned tissue-guards. 2 full-page plates.
Volume XI: xi, 285 pages. 17 colour plates with captioned tissue-guards. 2 full-page plates.
Volume XII: xii, 292 pages. 16 colour plates with captioned tissue-guards. 1-fold-out colour map [69.5 x 53.5 cm]

Publishers red cloth cover, gilt title vignette to spine, top edges gilt, untrimmed pages (each)
9.5 x 6.25 in (24 x 16 cm) (each)

This is the library edition. Limited edition of 500 copies of which this is set no. 476 printed for the United Kingdom.

Volumes 1-8 dedicated to Japan and 9-12 to China. Photographs of architecture, art, birds, costumes and much more.

F. Brinkley (1841-1912) was the owner and publisher of Japan Mail and resided in Japan for over 40 years during the Meiji Era (1868-1912), an era of major changes, characterised by the opening of Japan to Western ideas and Technologies. Brinkley's accounts of Japan and China highlight the fascination with which the West considered the east at the end of the nineteenth Century. Brinkley exploited his knowledge of Asia to create voluminous writings that have satisfied and heightened the curiosity of his western readers. This important work deals with the art, the history, the culture, the politics, the literature, the ceramics, the painting, the religion and the education of Japanese and Chinese.

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