Description

Large quarto bound in bright red cloth lettered in gold, in publisher’s unclipped pictorial dust-jacket. 548 pages. Bibliography, Index. Profusely illumed with 736 illustrations, including 60 full color plates, plus maps and charts. Fourth edition. “The only book of its scope in English — a one-volume account of the visual arts of Asia from the Indus River to Japan and Java between the fifth millennium B.C. and A.D. 1850. It offers a clear and comprehensive study of the three major artistic traditions of eastern Asia — Indian, Chinese and Japanese — as well as a cogent overview of their interrelationships and their influences on the neighboring traditions of Southeast Asia and Indonesia, Central Asia and Korea.” No previous ownership marks. A clean, fresh, unmarked copy, like new in like dust-jacket. Fine in a fine dust-jacket. A large, heavy book, Priority and International orders will require additional postage, calculated as close to actual coat as possible.