Publicado por British Museum Press (2005), London, UK, 2005
ISBN 10: 0714124303 ISBN 13: 9780714124308
Librería: Riverow Bookshop, Owego, NY, Estados Unidos de America
Original o primera edición
Paperback. Condición: Very Good/NO DUSTJACKET. Color Illustrations Ilustrador. First Edition. London, UK: British Museum Press. Very Good/NO DUSTJACKET. (2005). First Edition. Paperback. Sm 4to., 304 pp. .
Publicado por The British Museum Press, London, first English-language edition, 2005, 2005
ISBN 10: 0714126446 ISBN 13: 9780714126449
Librería: Wykeham Books, LONDON, Reino Unido
Original o primera edición
Laminated pictorial wrappers, 4to, 256 pp, numerous ills (some colour). 110 entries. From the blurb - "Ferdinand Columbus (1488-1530), son of Christopher Columbus and author of the first published account of a voyage to the New World, was also without doubt the greatest bibliophile and print collector of his day. At the time of his death his library contained over 15,000 volumes and more than 3,200 prints. Although the prints have disappeared, a detailed inventory survives in the Biblioteca Colombina in Seville and this has made it possible to reconstruct part of Columbus s unique collection. This beautifully illustrated book catalogues 110 of the most important prints in the collection. Most of these are very rare: many survive as unique impressions. All the major Renaissance artists working in the medium are represented, including Hans Burgkmair, Ligo da Carpi, Albrecht Durer, Lucas van Leyden, Giovanni Battista Palumba and Marcantonio Raimondi. The introductory chapters discuss Columbus's life and work and show how the reconstruction of his collection has radically transformed our understanding of the printmaking industry in Renaissance Europe." Contents include: Director's Preface; Introduction: The Print Collection of Ferdinand Columbus; 1 Prinlmaking and Print Collecting in the Renaissance; 2 The Life and Work of Ferdinand Columbus; 3 The Print Inventory, its Systems of Classification and Rebuilding the Collection; 4 The Physical Life of the Print Collection and Ferdinand's Universal Library; Catalogue; Note to the Reader; Bibliography; List of Works in the Catalogue; Index. Very Good.
Publicado por London: The British Museum Press, 2005., 2005
Librería: Cornell Books Limited, Tewkesbury, Reino Unido
Miembro de asociación: PBFA
Original o primera edición
First edition in English (softcover). 4to (29cm by 24cm), 256pp. Illustrated throughout in b&w. Original laminated card wrappers. This book is in very good condition. ISBN 0714126446.
Publicado por British Museum Press, London 2005 (second ed), 2005
Librería: THE CROSS Art + Books, Sydney, NSW, Australia
25.0 x 19.0cms, 240pp, b&w and colour illust, softcover, name inside front cover, very good. This book looks at the pottery's functions in each dynasty; the modes of their production; and the ways in which the conditions of their production shaped their final forms. It incorporates contemporary commentaries, recent archaeological evidence and new scientific analyses,
Publicado por London: British Museum Press, 2005, 2005
Librería: Steven Wolfe Books, Newton Centre, MA, Estados Unidos de America
Gerstle, C. Andrew. Kabuki heroes on the Osaka stage, 1780-1830. Andrew C. Gerstle with Timothy Clark and Akiko Yano. London: British Museum Press, 2005, 304pp., large sewn PAPERBACK, very good copy, BUT glossy paper slightly warped. "Kabuki Heroes is about collective participation in urban culture - on the stage, in poetry salons, in art studios and in fan clubs. Focusing on the culture of Kabuki theatre in Osaka and Kyoto, it illustrates the passionate hero worship of actors by all levels of society. Fans vigorously engaged in the creation of celebrity and fame for their idols, and thereby won their own moments of glory and glamour in the spotlight. Many of these participants are represented here - most of them ordinary townsmen, but also a few samurai and courtiers. This interactive nature of Kabuki culture is particularly intriguing: the actors themselves not only appeared on stage, but involved themselves in other cultural circles such as poetry salons. Kabuki fan clubs, on the other hand, performed formal rituals at the theatre, individual fans became amateur performers, while others created lavish colour prints and books to support favourite actors and spread their fame." "This catalogue illustrates that our obsession with celebrity is not just a modern phenomenon: in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Osaka we can rediscover many elements in common with our own times. Most importantly, after the spread of new colour-woodblock printing technology in the late 1760s, a golden age of popular Kabuki culture was promoted far and wide with beautifully coloured prints and books. The fine examples brought together here from leading public and private collections in Europe and Japan evoke a fascinating period when theatre, art and poetry were essential elements of social and cultural life."--Catalog of an exhibition held at the British Museum, London in 2005, also in Tokyo and Osaka, Japan. - CONTENTS: Kabuki culture and collective creativity / C. Andrew Gerstle -- Osaka Kabuki fan clubs and their obsessions / Yoko Kaguraoka -- Ready for a close-up : actor 'likenesses' in Edo and Osaka / Timothy Clark -- Catalogue. Passion for Kabuki : colour printing and actor portraits, 1770-1805 ; The great rivalry : Rikan versus Shikan, 1805-25 ; The rivalry continues : Rikan II versus Shikan II, 1822-38. ISBN 9780714124308.
Publicado por British Museum Press London 2005, 2005
Librería: Andrew Barnes Books / Military Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
Original o primera edición
1st edition laminated boards As New small octavo 71pp., colour plates, 'The full and complete text of Beatrix Potter's world-famous and universally loved Tale of Peter Rabbit faithfully translated and transcribed page for page into the hieroglyphic script of an Egyptian of the Middle Kingdom and illustrated with all the original colour artwork by the author herself'.
Publicado por British Museum Press London 2005, 2005
Librería: Andrew Barnes Books / Military Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
Original o primera edición
1st ed. thus softback with stiff wrappers Nice copy small quarto xix + 432pp., colour & b/w plates, text ills., map, bibliog., index, The Villanovian civilization ca 900-720 BC; the orientalizing period & the emergence of the Etruscan cities 720-575 BC; the archaic period 575-480 BC; crisis & renewal, the 5th & 4th centuries; the Hellenistic period 3rd to 1st centuries.
Publicado por British Museum Press, London. 2005., 2005
Librería: Much Ado Books, Alfriston, SUSSE, Reino Unido
Paperback. Colour and Black and White photographs. Very Good (with British Museum leaflet laid in), without dust jacket. Oversize; Postage & Packing may cost extra.
Publicado por London British Museum Press 2005, 2005
ISBN 10: 0714125075 ISBN 13: 9780714125077
Condición: Très bon état. in-4, cartonnage sous jaquette illustrée, 224 pp., nombreuses photos en couleurs, index, bibliographie. Texte en anglais. Très bon état.