• The Pictorial Arts of Japan 1886 William Anderson signed Artist’s Proof no. 20 rare limited edition Japanese art folio Meiji era Japanese visual culture 80 plates color monochrome illustration William Anderson art history British Museum Japanese collection Sampson Low London signed folio rare collectible early Western scholarship Japanese art study Professor Anatomy Tokyo Imperial Naval Medical College Meiji Japan Japanese prints paintings drawings Japanese artistic traditions rare book folio collector edit
  • The Pictorial Arts of Japan 1886 William Anderson signed Artist’s Proof no. 20 rare limited edition Japanese art folio Meiji era Japanese visual culture 80 plates color monochrome illustration William Anderson art history British Museum Japanese collection Sampson Low London signed folio rare collectible early Western scholarship Japanese art study Professor Anatomy Tokyo Imperial Naval Medical College Meiji Japan Japanese prints paintings drawings Japanese artistic traditions rare book folio collector edit
  • The Pictorial Arts of Japan 1886 William Anderson signed Artist’s Proof no. 20 rare limited edition Japanese art folio Meiji era Japanese visual culture 80 plates color monochrome illustration William Anderson art history British Museum Japanese collection Sampson Low London signed folio rare collectible early Western scholarship Japanese art study Professor Anatomy Tokyo Imperial Naval Medical College Meiji Japan Japanese prints paintings drawings Japanese artistic traditions rare book folio collector edit
  • The Pictorial Arts of Japan 1886 William Anderson signed Artist’s Proof no. 20 rare limited edition Japanese art folio Meiji era Japanese visual culture 80 plates color monochrome illustration William Anderson art history British Museum Japanese collection Sampson Low London signed folio rare collectible early Western scholarship Japanese art study Professor Anatomy Tokyo Imperial Naval Medical College Meiji Japan Japanese prints paintings drawings Japanese artistic traditions rare book folio collector edit
  • The Pictorial Arts of Japan 1886 William Anderson signed Artist’s Proof no. 20 rare limited edition Japanese art folio Meiji era Japanese visual culture 80 plates color monochrome illustration William Anderson art history British Museum Japanese collection Sampson Low London signed folio rare collectible early Western scholarship Japanese art study Professor Anatomy Tokyo Imperial Naval Medical College Meiji Japan Japanese prints paintings drawings Japanese artistic traditions rare book folio collector edit
  • The Pictorial Arts of Japan 1886 William Anderson signed Artist’s Proof no. 20 rare limited edition Japanese art folio Meiji era Japanese visual culture 80 plates color monochrome illustration William Anderson art history British Museum Japanese collection Sampson Low London signed folio rare collectible early Western scholarship Japanese art study Professor Anatomy Tokyo Imperial Naval Medical College Meiji Japan Japanese prints paintings drawings Japanese artistic traditions rare book folio collector edit
  • The Pictorial Arts of Japan 1886 William Anderson signed Artist’s Proof no. 20 rare limited edition Japanese art folio Meiji era Japanese visual culture 80 plates color monochrome illustration William Anderson art history British Museum Japanese collection Sampson Low London signed folio rare collectible early Western scholarship Japanese art study Professor Anatomy Tokyo Imperial Naval Medical College Meiji Japan Japanese prints paintings drawings Japanese artistic traditions rare book folio collector edit
  • The Pictorial Arts of Japan 1886 William Anderson signed Artist’s Proof no. 20 rare limited edition Japanese art folio Meiji era Japanese visual culture 80 plates color monochrome illustration William Anderson art history British Museum Japanese collection Sampson Low London signed folio rare collectible early Western scholarship Japanese art study Professor Anatomy Tokyo Imperial Naval Medical College Meiji Japan Japanese prints paintings drawings Japanese artistic traditions rare book folio collector edit
  • The Pictorial Arts of Japan 1886 William Anderson signed Artist’s Proof no. 20 rare limited edition Japanese art folio Meiji era Japanese visual culture 80 plates color monochrome illustration William Anderson art history British Museum Japanese collection Sampson Low London signed folio rare collectible early Western scholarship Japanese art study Professor Anatomy Tokyo Imperial Naval Medical College Meiji Japan Japanese prints paintings drawings Japanese artistic traditions rare book folio collector edit
  • The Pictorial Arts of Japan 1886 William Anderson signed Artist’s Proof no. 20 rare limited edition Japanese art folio Meiji era Japanese visual culture 80 plates color monochrome illustration William Anderson art history British Museum Japanese collection Sampson Low London signed folio rare collectible early Western scholarship Japanese art study Professor Anatomy Tokyo Imperial Naval Medical College Meiji Japan Japanese prints paintings drawings Japanese artistic traditions rare book folio collector edit
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William Anderson - The Pictorial Arts of Japan - 1886 (Signed Artist's Proof)

William Anderson - The Pictorial Arts of Japan - 1886 (Signed Artist's Proof)

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Title

The Pictorial Arts of Japan

Author

William Anderson

Year

1886

Publisher

Sampson Low, Marston & Co, London

Description

Signed Artist’s Proof, no. 20 of a limited issue, signed multiple times by William Anderson - denoting one of the earliest, personally reviewed impressions before general publication. Complete with 80 finely printed color and monochrome plates, this large folio represents Anderson’s landmark study of Japanese art, produced at a time when few Western scholars approached the subject with such rigor or sympathy. Anderson (1842–1900), a surgeon and anatomist turned art historian, lived in Tokyo during the early Meiji era, where he served as Professor of Anatomy at the Imperial Naval Medical College and immersed himself in Japanese artistic traditions. His pioneering research and vast personal collection - later forming the foundation of the British Museum and British Library’s Japanese holdings - secured his place as a bridge between Eastern and Western art history, and as one of the first Westerners to treat Japanese visual culture as a field of academic inquiry.

xix, 276 pp.

Condition

Clean pages overall with foxing mainly at the beginning and occasionally in the gutter; small tear to the gutter of the descriptive letterpress facing plate 61 (not affecting content). The first three endpapers are largely stuck together (see photo 8); white writing present on spine. Markings and rubbing to cover; small tear to front free endpaper. Large and Heavy. 
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