Descriptive Catalogue of Japanese Books in the British Library Printed Before 1700 Tapa dura - 1993

-British Library, 1993-. Collection catalogue. First edition xlv+753 pages plus 114 pages of plates mainly black and white. Cloth. Fine in somewhat grubby dustjacket with closed tears. With detailed descriptions of 635 books printed in Japan from the eighth century up to the year 1700, this collection comprises the British Library''s entire collection of Japanese antiquarian books, built up over the last 250 years and considered the most extensive outside Japan. We are specialists in Catalogues: Exhibitions, Auctions, Collections, etc., with a picture of the cover available on request. All items are as described and dispatched within 36 hours in a secure package. We are professional booksellers with over 32 years experience, you may order with confidence. Descriptive Catalogue of Japanese Books in the British Library Printed Before 1700 0712302433

Tenri Central Library, January 1993. Hardcover. VG/Very Good. used hardcover in a dust jacket. jacket is slightly worn about the edges, but with no tears and not price clipped. pages and binding are clean, straight and tight. there are no marks to the text or other serious flaws.

British Library; Tenri Central Library, London Tenri-shi, Japan, first edition, 1993. Cloth, 8vo, 27 cm,. xlv, 753 pp, + 114 pp of plates with 14 colour and 315 black-and-white illustrations. 637 entries. A very detailed and exemplary bibliographical catalogue of the British Library's rich collection of over 600 pre-1700 Japanese printed books. From a review by P.F. Kornicki: "Gardner has done a great service in producing a catalogue so rich in learning... The value of his work lies not only in its definitive detail and bibliographical exactitude, exemplary though they are, but also in its broader applications, for there is much to be gleaned from this catalogue about the production and consumption of cultural artifacts in Japan, about seventeenth-century sinology, about book-collecting both in the Edo period and in more recent times by early Western japanologists." From the Preface: "The British Library's collection of Japanese books printed between the 12th and the 17th… Leer más