1928 EASTERN WINDOWS BY KEITH TRAVEL IN JAPAN KOREA CHINA PHILIPPINES 12 COL PLT

Description: I have here for sale a book entitled EASTERN WINDOWS An Artist's Notes of Travel in Japan, Hokkaido, Korea, China and the Philippines by Elizabeth Keith. A first edition published by Hutchinson & Co Ltd in 1928. It has 12 tipped-in colour plates mounted on grey thick paper all by the author. Elizabeth Keith (30 April 1887 – 1956) was a Scottish artist and writer. She was a print-maker and watercolourist whose works were significantly influenced by her travels to Japan, China, Korea and the Philippines. She learned a lot about the traditional methods of Japanese printing and used them in her work which gained popularity not only in Asia but in London and New York too.Quarter cream cloth on navy cloth hardboards with a gilt sunrise and gilt title lettering to the front board. Gilt lettering to the spine. Ex-library with a stamp in a couple of places for University of Warwick Library. A couple of small white marks to the blue cloth. Bumped to head and tail of the spine and one bumped corner. Boards firm. Bookplate to the front endpaper. Grey endpapers. Light foxing throughout. Illustrated capitals. Plates are clean and bright. 125 pages + plates. 29 x 23 cm.We have over 2000 items in our Ebay shop on a range of subjects, so please feel free to have a browse and see if anything else takes your fancy. Postage will be by Air Mail outside of UK. If you buy more than one item then the postage cost falls for the second and further items as I will put them into one parcel - so you save money. We wrap and post the parcels on Monday and Tuesday - therefore if you pay before midday on Tuesday we will get it in the postal sacks on Tuesday night, and if it is after that time then it will go into the postal service on the following Monday. pages

Price: 149.99 GBP

Location: Whitegate, Cheshire

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Shipping Cost: 46.65 GBP