Ukiyo-E
250 Years Of Japanese Art.
By Roni Neuer, Herbert Libertson and Susugu Yoshida. Copyright 1979 by Mondadori -Shueisha. Published by Gallery Books 1979.
With the Glossy pictorial dust jacket
A detailed study of the development of the technical and artistic achievement of Ukiyo-e (Japanese graphic art - pictures of the floating world).
It contains a 49-page essay on the history of Ukiyo-e followed by 328 pages of art - full-color plates, most full-page, all with accompanying detailed descriptions.
390 pages. Oversized volume 12.5" by 9.5".
This book is not in mint condition, but it is awfully close.
It has spent the last 25 years in a closed (and properly ventilated - no mold) glass front bookcase, along with many of it's friends.
I have seldom even opened it, only because I have thousands of old reference books and catalogues (really - 40+ years worth) and it was deposited in the wrong place.
So I never looked there, until recently, during a major cleaning.
The dust jacket has a tiny tweak at the top of the spine area which I did while I was handling it for this listing. Dumb, huh?
It also has many full color pictures taken from original woodblock prints which helps to account for the subtle colors, especially on the really old ones.
