Publishers’ Circular (1880-1890), 6th December 1888, Edition 1 of 1, Page 1688

TWO IMPORTANT WORKS ON JAPANESE ART IMPORTANT WOBK ON JAPANESE ORNAMENTAL ART The Ornamental Arts of Japan Dedicated , by special permission , to His Royal Highness the Duke op Edinburgh , K . G ., K . T . Illustrated with One Hundred and One Plates—Seventy in Colours and Gold , and Thirty-one in Monochrome—with general and descriptive text . By George AsHdown Audsleyj Fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architects , Member of the Asiatic Society of Japan , one of the Authors of the * Keramic Art of Japan , ' and Author of several works on . Art . Complete in Four Parts , Now Ready . _ Conditions of Publication . —The Work , forming Two Handsome Folio Volumes , is issued in Four Parts , inclosed in ornamental cloth Portfolios . The Entire Edition for sale in England and the Colonies is strictly limited to 690 copies . The Author and Publishers bind themselves neither to print further copies nor publish any smaller edition . ( The Artist Proof Edition of 50 copies entirely disposed of , ) < General Copies , printed on finest plate paper , only 640 copies printed for sale in England and the Colonies ........ ... ... ... £ 15 15 0 In 2 vols . handsomely bound in leather , specially designed by the Author 23 2 0 were ' We issued briefly more described than two the years first and and a second half ago instalments . It is now of Mr complete . Audsley , and ' s splendidly on its superb illustrated plates book all the soon resources after they of I have MM . Lemercier been developed , of Paris in delineating , have been the lavished art of , and the extreme the best qualities East , '—Athenaeum of the chromo . -lithographic and heliogravure processes I yet been * In this published splendid . '— work Academy , now . brought safely to a conclusion , we have the most perfect view of Japanese Art which has ' As might be expected , the most attractive and perhaps the most important part of Mr . Audsley ' s book consists of the illustrations , excellently chosen , and printed in colours in the most beautiful manner by Mi Lemercier , of Paris Times . ' . IMPORTANT WORK ON JAPANESE PICTORIAL ART The Pictorial Arts of Japan Illustrated with Eighty Plates , executed by Chromo-Lithography , Photogravure , and Native t Engravings on Wood and Copper , and a large number of Woodcuts , & c , printed in the body of the Work , with general and descriptive text by William Andebson , F . R . C . S ., late Medical Officer to H . M . 's Legation in Japan ; Author of A Descriptive Catalogue of the Collection of Chinese and Japanese Pictures in the British Museum ' ( in the press ) , and Articles on Pictorial and Glyptic Art in the * Handbook for Japan' & c . The Complete Work , in Four Parts , Now Ready . ( 100 Conditions artists' proof of Publication copies and . 1 — , 000 The ordinary entire English copies ) and . The American Publishers Edition bind is limited themselves to 1 , 100 neither copies to print further copies nor publish any smaller edition . The Work is supplied at the following prices : — Artists' proof copies , Plates printed on finest Japanese paper , numbered and signed by the Author ... - ... ... j £ 12 12 0 ( Only a few copies of this Edition now remain ?) I Ordinary copies , printed on finest plate paper ... ... ... ... 8 80 ? A boot to cherish as a work of art as well as a boot to read . The issue for England and America is limited to eleven produce hundred a copies cheap — edition a hundred , to its " artists other ' shining proof " qualities and a thousand there will " ordinary be added "— that and , of as rarity the publishers . What is bind more themselves to the purpose not to is that its illustrations alone are enough to make it priceless . '—Saturday Review * ~ rivalled interesting * The only admirers , treatise by the finest of on Japanese the efforts subject of art . Messrs . will . . The , find Ooupil ohromo in . the '—Manohkstbr - present Uthographs work Guardian especially a rdbat complete . are worthy and of instructive the highest , as praise well as , and a most are . \ - ' ¦ ¦'¦ . ¦; ^_—;—> ¦ ¦ . - rt t London : SAMPSON LOW , MAKSTON , SEARLE & BIVINQTON , Limited , , St . Dunfctan ' s Hous 6 , Fitter Lane , Fleet Street , B . C . HSv ^ MMMMMWMMMMlZIlMIIMM WF ' "' * s " ,, "¦ - " ' V" "¦/¦ .- < ¦ . TflC

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