This book contains over 186 illustrations and a glossary of Chinese and Japanese terms. This detailed and scholarly work will appeal to student s and connoisseurs of both netsuke and toggles, as well as East Asian arts and crafts in general.
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This book contains over 186 illustrations and a glossary of Chinese and Japanese terms. This detailed and scholarly work will appeal to student s and connoisseurs of both netsuke and toggles, as well as East Asian arts and crafts in general.
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Very good. The cover is clean and looks almost new. Unread copy. Text is like-new. Ships fast. Expedited shipping available at checkout for domestic orders.
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Very Good in Good jacket. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1962. 1st printing. A square and unmarked copy, VG/G. Full blue cloth binding. 256pp. Photos. Dust jacket is good only, price-clipped and moderately worn along edges, with small chips. In a protective mylar cover. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 4to-over 9"-12" Tall.
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New. 1891640305. *** FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request ***-*** IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT-Flawless copy, brand new, pristine, never opened--Corresponds to ISBN: 1891640305. 256 pages. Description: "Although the Japanese belt ornaments known as netsuke have long been popular with collectors and much written about, the Chinese toggles which preceded them have gone little noticed. Professor Cammann's long out of print work was the first book in any Western language to discuss them. Using examples from the C. F. Bieber collection and other private and museum collections, Professor Cammann discusses every aspect of these toggles, from the selection of materials through the methods used to make them and choices of motif and decoration. Toggles were chiefly made and worn by common people and thus form part of China's rather neglected folk art tradition. Materials were chosen for specific medicinal or magical reasons assumed to make them efficacious as amulets. Readers are introduced to figures and motifs of Chinese folklore as well as more conventional symbols from the Buddhist and Taoist religious traditions. Mongolian and Tibetan toggles are also discussed, both in terms of their own traditions and contrasted with the more familiar Chinese and Manchu examples. With over 186 illustrations and a glossary of Chinese and Japanese terms, this detailed and scholarly work will appeal to students and connoisseurs of both netsuke and toggles, as well as of East Asian arts and crafts in general."--with a bonus offer--
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Good. Ex-library copy with usual markings. Dust jacket shows shelf wear with tears. Edges shows minor shelf wear. Dust jacket is covered in brodart. Pages are clean and intact. Very Clean Copy-Over 500, 000 Internet Orders Filled.