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The most Important and Beautiful Work on Oriental Art ever published . * A CONTRIBUTION TO ART LITERATURE OF THE HIGHEST . INTEREST . '—ST . JAMES'S GAZETTE . Dedicated by Special Permission to His Royal HigHness the DuJce of Edinburgh ,, K . G-, K . T . TZHZZEJ ORNAMENTAL ARTS OF JAPAN . frustrated Thirty with -one One in Hundred Monochrome and One —with Plates Genera —Seventy l and in Descriptive Colours and Text . Gold , and Fellow By of thr GKEORGS Rotal Institute of -E British ASHDOWN Architects ; Membwr op the Asiatic AUDSLEY Society op Japan ; , One of the Authors of the * Keramic Art of Japan' ; and Author op several Works on Art . * CONDITIONS OF PUBLICATION . The Work , forming Two handsome Polio Volumes , will be issued in Four Parts , inclosed in ornamental cloth portfolios The entire . Edition for the sale in . ENGLAND and the COLONIES is strictly limited to 690 copies . The Author and plates Publishers are now bind destroyed themselves . neither to print further copies nor publish any smaller edition . The stones for the earlier ; GOENEKAL COPIES THE , WORE printed WILL on finest BE plate SUPPLIED paper , only TO 640 SUBSCRIBERS copies printed ONLY for sale , at in the Englan following d and prices the Colonies : , £ 15 . 15 s . THE COMPLETE WORK in 2 vols . handsomely bound in leather—an original design by the Author .. .. £ 21 . 0 « . part iv . ^ now ready . - ze > : r : ess jez :, e -v i : e "w s . THE TIMES . * This fine Work , of which the first part is just issued , is meant to rang-e with the folio edition of Messrs . Audsley and Bowes and with ' well , lacquer -known ; and " Keramic contains Art detached of Japan p . l " ates , with present descriptions instalmen , of t deals objects in general that come terms under with these drawing heads and and painting under , those of embroidery , textile fabrics , incnisted work , and cloisonne enamel . The subsequent parts , we assume , will conalmost tain general entirely essay from s on historical these latter disquisitions processes , and and to additional content himself illustrative with a pl careful ates . Mr and . Audsl practical ey ' s p account lan has been of the to methods abstain of that work this followed generation by , the under Japanese the fascination But which the the book newly will -discovered be none the art less of valuable the far for East that has . It exercised may indeed upon , be it , said has ¦ produced books enough and to spare on the theoretical side of Japanese art , while it has done but little by way of a to account careful be told analytical cf the aftex lacquer it examination manufacture As of might the , for processes be example expected of , Japanese is , the exhaustive most workmen attractive , and . we Mjr can and . Audsley hardly perh ' aps s imagine treatment the most that ia anything important of the latter more part kind remain of . Mr His s . Audsley M . Lemercier ' s book , of consists Paris . ' of the illustrations , excellently chosen , and printed in colours in the most beautiful manner by ST . JAMES'S GAZETTE . colour * It -printin is so excellent g it is really in every superb way ; in that these no respects praise , can indeed go , beyond it is one its of the merits most . As perfect a mere works specimen of the kind of typography ever published and . masterly The plat « . s reflect He is enthusiastic the highest but credit not on infatuated the various , thou lithograph gh infatuation ers engaged is a characteristic ; and Mr . Audsley of too ' s much letterpress of English is litt writing le short on of in Japanese his facts art and ; he modest is learned in his but theories never dull ; and , for all he he writes happily is distinguished unites scholarship by a vie with w of a simple art as sound readable and style clear ; as he his is feeling careful , for discussed it is strong and illustrated and unaffected are drawing . The , result painting is -, a and contri colour bution -printing to art 1 ; embroidery literature of and the textile highest fabrics interest ; lacquer . The , metal arts , here and incrusted It may be . work that few ; carving but students and cloisonne will read enamel Mr . . Audsley All these ' s ad are mirable fully described essays , but , technically every one , will historically delight , in and the critically illustrations . . . ; . ~ These printed are in of a sort two of kinds sepia —coloured are charming and monochrome of their kind , including , and produce some d characteristic with great delicacy woodcuts ; printed but no in words the text can . properly Those not describe too much the exquisite to say that beanty some of at most least of of the them coloured are as plates perfect . They in their are triumphs way as the of masterpieces the colour-printer from ' s which art ; and they it are is tflikoT * ' PALL MALL GAZETTE . matter its welcome 'Th Bnd e third appearance method and penultimate of . illustration As wit portion h , the in this two of Mr parts we . fi Audsley nd which noth ' s ing went great to before disqualify work , on we the had what " Ornamental nothing we then but said Arts praise and of but for Japan their little , " has to excellence add just to made it of . of It is perfection almost impossible than is reached to imagine in the that majority the arts of of chromo the flve - - lithography and-twenty and plates heliogravure representing can the be carried master-pieces to a higher of colour pitch - printing In this connection :, textile fabrics special , embroidery attention , may lacquer be drawn , incrusted to the and beautiful metal-work chromo , carving -lithograph , and painting , representing , selected a cloisonne for illustration jar , an . achievement of which M . Lomercier may well be proud , the drawing , colouring , tone , and register being all of them perfect essay on . the But history apart fro of m Japanese the illustrations enamels , , with the chief details matter of their of interest manufacture in the , special portfolio reference lies in Mr of . course Audsley being ' s exhaustive made to that and e monument arly practice of of patience this art and -manufacture artistic skill and , the the cloisonne necessarily onamel somewhat . Considering speculative the mystery character that of any surrounds conclusions the origin that may indeed be one deduced cannot from help researches regretting in this that uncertain this work field was , Mr not . Audsley written ' s before essay must Sir Ruth be pronounced erford Alcock a very contributed satisfactory his one well ; - known , article on Japanese Art to the " Encyclopaedia Britannica . " * THE AOADBM ? . most correctness * The beautiful third of facsimile of part those of this alread the representation splendid y published work . is of Nothing in the no old respec . in cloisonne the t inferior way tea of to chromo jar its which predecessors -lithography is Plate ; V indeed has . of ever Section , it exceeded seems VII to ., and in us beauty to nothing be the or , in artistic power , the ivory carving of Plate II ., Section VIII . ' THE ILLTJST . ttATEID LONDON JSTEWS . work Japan * We , " so by have well Mr . known received George tor A the . Audsley the first interest part , joint of and -author a work trustworthiness , , with to be Mr completed . James of L its . Bowes in comments two , of folio the and " volumes Keramio descriptions , on Arb the of and ** Japan Ornamental the . " beauty That Arts fo of rmer its of illustrations xvill embrace , , promisee the whole to range have of an Japanese entirely suitable art , and successor form at and once comp the most lement splendid in the and new practically work in preparation useful record . The of two the art of the farthest Boat that has appeared in our language . . . . Photogravure and colour-printing are combined to produce illustrations than which , anything more beautiful and perfect could hardly be conceived . ' London : SAMPSON LOW , MARSTQN , SEARLE , & RIVHSTGTON , Crown Buildings . 188 Fleet Street , E . C .

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