FIrst Edition of The Pictorial Arts of Japan by Anderson

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Author: Anderson, William

Title: The Pictorial Arts of Japan. With a Brief Historical Sketch of the Associated Arts, and Some Remarks upon the Pictorial Art of the Chinese and Koreans

Place Published: Boston

Publisher:Sampson, Lowe, Marston, Searle, & Rivington

Date Published: 1886

Description:
1 volume in 4 parts. Paginated continuously. Title page and other preliminary matter bound in 4th part. 80 plates, several in color. (Folio) original pictorial green cloth. First Edition.

A seminal work on the pictorial arts of Japan. The preface declares this "the earliest attempt made by an European to investigate Japanese painting from the historical aspect."
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