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A Dictionary of Irish Artists Illuminated Manuscripts The Georgian Society
W. G. STRICKLAND in Hungary Records 1909-1913
2 volumes; facsimile edition; 612 pp, ILONA BERKOVITS editor Catalogue of Georgian Houses in
74o pp; 150 portraits; Dublin 1913; 194 pp. including 45 colour plates, Ireland, arranged under counties, with
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Bibliotheca Corviniana The Irish and Highland
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A selection of illuminated manuscripts edition; Edinburgh 1904; SBN 7165 0073 6;
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Pre-Columbian The Harari Collection of Japanese Paintings and
Mexican Miniatures Drawings
Anni Albers Edited by J. Hillier
Humphries formed an outstanding collection the late Ralph Harari confined himself to the more difficult field of Lund
Since their first visit to Mexico
The Harari Collection of Japanese paintings and drawings is the most

more than thirty years ago, the
important in private hands in Europe. Whereas most collectors of
Japanese art have specialized in colour-prints or illustrated books,
distinguished artist and teacher
Josef Albers, and his wife, have
original paintings and drawings, and aimed to cover most aspects of
the country's pictorial art from about 1600 onwards. Because of a
of pre-Columbian miniatures in
personal bias, there is a strong emphasis on genre and Ukiyo-e,
stone, terra cotta and metal. None
or 'Floating World' pictures, and the works of many of the major
of the pieces is more than three
Ukiyo-e artists, from the primitives to the last great master,
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Yoshitoshi, are represented. Hokusai, the best known and most
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Yet despite their small size, the
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pieces are finely detailed and
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Washington, Boston, Tokyo and London.
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Lund of John Hill reproduced in this considerable in the world outside the great national collections in Humphries
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The fully documented catalogue has been compiled by J. Hillier, the
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Professor Michael D. Coe of Yale
Many of the subjects are being published for the first time, others
University contributes an
have been illustrated only in scarce, out-of-the-way catalogues of
illuminating account of the role of
French and other sales. This completely illustrated work on one of
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study of Japanese paintings.
Bernal, Director of the National
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History, Mexico, has written a 12 x 91 in.
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12X 9¼ in. Volume 2: 184 pages (including 105 monochrome illustrations and
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84s Two volumes, complete with slipcase, £21 the set
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