Description

Octavo pamphlet bound in blue and black stiff card covers. 36 pages. Brief preface by Andree Luce Cooney, Department of Oriental Art followed by an historical survey on Japanese Ceramics from Prehistoric times to the 17th-century penned by Roger Gerry. Short bibliography inside rear cover. Illustrated with 24 black and white photographs and a tipped-in color frontispiece. A complete catalog of the Gerry collection occupies the second half of the pamphlet. Edition unknown but presumed first. A nice exhibition catalog of a local Long Island collection. Covers rubbed from shelving, else a clean, sound and internally unmarked copy. Good+.