Netsuke: A Comprehensive Study Based on the M.T. Hindson Collection
London/New Jersey: Sotheby Publications, 1982. revised. Hardcover. Blue cloth boards with gilt lettering on spine, glossy blue dust jacket with color illustrations and white lettering, 566 pp, profusely illustrated in bw with some color illustrations. VG/VG (light bumping to boards at corners, light wear to dust jacket). Item #178775
ISBN: 9780856671166
Foreword by W.W. Winkworth. "Since its publication in 1974, this book has established itself as a standard reference work for collectors of netsuke. 1300 representative pieces from one of the most comprehensive collections ever to have been formed are discussed and illustrated, including full details of artists, schools and subjects. In this new revised edition over 100 more photographs of artists' signatures have been added, bringing the total to over 300, and greatly increasing the book's vaule for the collector. Each new signature has been carefully choses from a large selection to ensure its authenticity. In addition, 182 of the pieces are now illustrated in full color. The bibliograpahy has been expanded to include all major new books published in the intervening years."- Dust jacket.
OCLC: 9232570
Price: $150.00