Die Kunst der Japanischen Holzschnittmeister.
Munchen: Kurt Wolff, (1922). 125 pp. + plates. Illus. with 4 mounted color & 45 b/w plates + 6 b/w drawings. 4to. Quarter morocco over wood boards, top edge gilt. First edition. A very good or better copy in a good dust jacket with a large chip to front panel. Item #31987
Text in German. This was Bachhofer's dissertation. An influential work that covers the social and stylistic prerequisites for the development of wood block prints, followed by an explication of primitive, classic, and late periods, and concluding with an examination of the development of the representation of selected subjects.
Price: $100.00
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