The World's Great Collections. 12 Vols. (complete and all publ.). Ed. by Fujio Koyama and J.A. Pope.

This is a rare or used book from the Berkelouw Rare Books Department.

(Tokyo: Kodansha, 1976-1977). Folio. Uniformly bound in orig. off-white woven cloth with patterned flower motif gilt stamped on front cover. Spines gilt. Preserved in the orig. captioned solander cases. Profusely illustrated with full-page col. tipped-in plates, and num. b/w monochrome plates. Ed. lim. to 300 numbered sets only, this being Set No.1. Fine, complete, and most desirable. COLLATION: Vol.1: Tokyo National Museum; Vol.2: National Museum of Korea, Seoul; Vol.3: Museum Pusat, Jakarta; Vol.4: Iran Baston Museum, Teheran; Vol.5: The British Museum, London; Vol.6: Victoria & Albert Museum, London; Vol.7: Percival David Foundation of Chinese Art, London; Vol.8: Musee Guimet, Paris; Vol.9: Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities, Stockholm; Vol.10: The Freer Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; Vol.11: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; Vol.12: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.