Publishers’ Circular (1880-1890), 6th December 1886, Edition 1 of 1, Page 1535

I SAMPSON LOW , MARSTON & CO . 'S I NEW PUBLICATIONS FOR THE SEASON . I NEW ILLUSTRATED BOOKS . I Important Keiv . Wovic on Japanese Pictorial Art . JYotv Complete . The PICTORIAL ARTS of JAPAN . Illustrated with Eighty H Plates , executed by Chromo-lithography , Photogravure , and Native Engravings on Wood and and Copper descri , and ptive a large text number l > y William of Woodcuts Anderson , & c , , F printed . R . C . S . in , late . the Medical body of the Officer Work to . H . M With / s Legation general Pictures in Japan in ; Author the British of 'A Museum Descri ' ptive ( in the Catalogue press ) , and of the Articles Collection on Pictorial of Chinese and Gl and yptic Japanese Art in the ' Handbook ¦' '' for Japan ' ' , ' & c . - The ¦• Complete • Work , in Four Parts , now * read y . B .. ¦ ( 100 Condit artists ions ' proof of Public copies < a and ti < m . — 1 , 000 The ordinary entire Eng cop lish ies ) . and The American Publishers Edition bind themselves is limited ^ neither to 1 , 100 to cop print ies H further copies nor publish any smaller Edition . The Work is supp lied at the '"' follo wing ' prices : — Artists m ' proof copies , Plates printed on finest Japanese paper , numbered and si gned by the Author ... ... . ... » ... ... " * , ... ... £ 12 12 0 ¦ . ,-.,.. .. ( Only a few copies cf this Edition now remain . )' H Ordinary copies , printed on finest plate paper ... ' ... ... ... ... ... 8 8 0 'A . book to cherish as a work cf art as well os a book to reai . The issue for England and Aiuerilpa is limited to eleven produce hundred a copies cheap — edition a hundre , to d its " artist other s' shining proof" - a qual nd a ities thousan Ehere d will " ordin be a added ry "— that and , of as rari the ty publisher . What * is bind niore themselves to the purpoee not to is that its illustrations alone are enough to make it priceless . ' —Satubday Review . ¦* H interes ' The ting fldmirers , treatise of on Ja the pan subject ese art . ; will . . . find The in chromo the present -iithoarapb work s especially a most comp are lete worthy and of Instructive the highest , as praise well a , s and ' a most are rivalled only by the finest efforts of Messrs . Goiipil . '—Manchester Guardian . less The than Spectator a revelation , in reviewing ; but it is Part impossible I ., says : to — ' gi Of ve the anything present like instal an ment adequate it is not notion too of much the wealth to say and that variety it is nothing of its present praphy the contents illustrations part and within ge performance nera the well l limits get chosen -up , of neither all , a representati revie that , we w can . feel Snfflce be ve assured , desired and it to ad , will . mirably say If ha that author ve executed the any and text reason pu is , especially bl exhaustive to ishers complai -complet the and n of chromo l e earned the thei indifference - r litbograph , but task neverSdull in the s of , and the spirit or public th tedious e of tvpo the , to - , _ _ whom within the the limits art of impo the remotest sed l > y differences East , not of unwoitjby history and , in circumstance point < f grace , is and now vigour for the , of first comparison time presented with , Euro with pean adequate art , historical and descriptive comment , and unequalled fulneos , beauty , and variety of illustration . ' I importanc 'Thestores e , and of his folk- account lore he has of the gather developmen ed together t of form Japanese a contribution art is as to interesting our scientifi as c it knowledge is instructive of man . The oP extreme present unsurpassed instalment is ex admirabl celle » ce . y got Altogether up . a »« d the the work illustration promise s , ^ particularly to be of equal the chronio intereat -lithographs and value to by the Greve student , of Berlin of men , are and of society , to the lover of art , and to the collector of Oriental curiosities/—Nattjue ( Preliminary Notice ) . I AMERICAN YACHTS . By Frederick Cozzbns . Text by J . D . I Jerhold Kelley , lieutenant U . S . Nayy . A Series of 27 Plates , 22 x 28 inches , illustrative I of the variant Phases of Yachting Life . I Those Plates show , not only evrery typ * of boat sailing upon our waters , but . giva-the f ^ itliful I I portra famous its the of world nearly over eve . ry pleasure craft which lias contributed to make American yachts and yachtsmen I I Hketches They of are Fredrrick exact reprodu S . C ctions ozzbns by Es Messrs . an artist . Armstrong who allies & in Company his sea , Cambrid ictures ge accurate , of the water drawing -colour and , q , p E onl superb y of colouring patient toil with and the of insp freedom iration of seized touch fro and m the nature breadth in those of treatment waters where which ships can may b * float the . outcome of its From fidelity yachtsmen no less who enthusiastic have criticall thun y examined the praises the of techni artists que who of the have work studied have its come claims endorsements from their I v yacliting .-i ntage ground ever g , iven and to both the have public united . in pronouncing it the best and truest presentation of yachts and ^ ioutona The accom nt U . S pany . Navy ing , volume an officer of of text wide presents experience a sories and an of author yachring of essays established by J . reputation D . Jerrold . Kbixby , Proof copy Price Twenty Guineas . Artittt proof copy - . ^ .. 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