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Japanese Art

Making an appointment

Viewing Special Collections materials is by appointment only. Contact Christine Mannix (cmannix@ccad.edu).

Bring your CCAD ID card. If your item has a barcode we will "check out" the item. If it doesn't have a barcode, we will hold your ID. For security purposes, we request that you sit at the table across for the circulation desk. One book may be viewed at a time unless special permission is given to view multiple books.

Book handling 101: Wash your hands (no moisturizer, please); no food or drinks allowed; stow belongings; pencil and notebook or laptops only; photos without flash are allowed, but not photocopies. 

Historic Art Book Collection

Block printing & book illustration in Japan, by Louise Norton Brown. With forty-three plates (eighteen in colours), and copious indexes of titles and artists, 1925

Coloured ornament of all historical styles, with coloured plates from own paintings in water colours by Alexander Speltz, 1915

Le Costume historique [Historic costume], v. 1-6, by Auguste Racinet [our big Racinet], 1888 

Le Costume historique, trois cent vingt-cinq planches, v. 1-2, (our "mini" Racinet), 1890

Decorations polychromes [Polychrome decoration], v. 1-2, 190? 

Gli stili nella forma e nel colore, rassegna dell' arte antica e moderna di tutti i paesi [Styles in form and color, review of the ancient and modern art of all countries], 1925

Japanese woodcuts: early periods, 195-?

Kyoto woodcuts, 1978

Masterpieces of Japanese woodcuts from Moronobu to Hiroshige ; forty heliotypes in colours, 192-?

Der Ornamentenschatz [Treasure chest of ornament], 1889

Ornement polychrome : cent planches en couleurs, or et argent, contenant environ 2,000 motifs de tous les styles, art ancien et asiatique, Moyen Age, Renaissance, XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles : recueil historique et pratique, [Polychrome ornament : one hundred color plates with gold and silver, containing about 2,000 motifs of all styles: ancient and Asian art, the Middle Ages, the Renaissance, the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries: historical collection and practice], v.1-6,  188?