1883 L'Art Japonais

Description

Colour Plates, First Edition, Illustrated, Limited Edition, Publishers' Original Binding

The first and limited edition of this work, limited to 1,400 copies, of which this is numbered 817.

Complete in two volumes.

In the original French.

An impressive retrospective of Japanese art, including a brief history of the country. This work was one of the key pieces which helped to popularise Japan in the West, and the Japonisme style which ended up in the creation of Art Nouveau.

Volume I is illustrated with seventeen chromolithographs, fourteen monochrome plates, and in-text engravings throughout.

Volume II is illustrated with fourteen chromolithographs, seventeen monochrome plates, and in-text engravings throughout.

Collated, Volume I lacking the index, being pages 305 to 310, and each volume is bound without one plate.

By Louis Gonse, who was one of the first European experts in Japanese art.