ARNOLD, Matthew FORE-EDGE PAINTINGBiblio.com
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Osaka Painting Schools in the Edo Period / Kinsei Osaka gadan
008285Tokyo: Dohosha Shuppan. Presumed First Edition . Cloth. Fine. Folio - over 12 - 15" tall. A bilingual edition in English and in Japanese with principal text in Japanese and supplemental text in English. Presumed first printing of the first edition. Printed and bound in Japan. 14 x 10.25 inches. Bound in handsome orange-rust cloth with crisp gilt titling to the spine. Unbumped spine head and tail and sharp corners. Immensely clean binding. Text block firmly bound in. Attractively illustrated pastedowns with maps of Old Osaka. With 340 numbered pages. With numerous full-color plates and monochrome plates mostly full-page illustrating Kano lineage painting paintings from nature literati paintings genre paintings and illustrated books or ehon. All plates on heavy-duty semi-glossy stock. A strikingly clean interior; the book almost certainly unread and the text block still tight. With a heavy-duty slipcase of glossy illustrated paper and with top and bottom with orange-rust cloth. A Fine copy in a Near Fine slipcase. Very scarce in any condition. 7 lbs. 7 oz. Published in association with the Museum of Art Osaka Japan. This book provides a window into the supremely rich visual culture of Osaka's early modern Edo period 1615-1868. <br/> <br/> Dohosha Shuppan hardcover
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