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Limited and numbered edition (N° 25 / 500). 108 color and over 130 black-and-white illustrations. 339 pp. Quarto. Cloth-bound, dust jacket in illustrated slipcase. Very good condition.

Zustand: Sehr gut. 339 S. nummeriertes Exemplar Nr. 219/400. Ein gutes und sauberes Exemplar. Schuber berieben. - Handwritten as well as handprinted, books have played a fundamental role in spreading the message of the Buddha from India to various countries of Asia from the early centuries of the Christian era. Known commonly as sutra, Buddhist scriptures were carefully transcribed on palm-leaf, birch-bark, wood, cloth, paper (the medium for printed books) and even silver and gold. Certainly, by the eighth century, but possibly earlier, the Buddhists also began embellishing sutras with illustrations, and, thereafter, until the early part of this century, an enormous amount of illuminated books were produced in most countries where Buddhism has prevailed. Sprache: Deutsch Gewicht in Gramm: 1550 Mit zahlr. auch farb. Abb. Originalleinen mit Schutzumschlag in Schuber.

First US edition. 4to. 339 pp w/bibliography & index. Fine in very near fine dust jacket with a light wrinkle to crown. Very near fine publisher's slipcase. One of 400 numbered copies. From the library of Nathaniel Tarn, with his bookplate inside the front cover.

Edition limtied to 500 copies (this no. 16), 4to, pp. 339, [1]; 108 color and over 130 black and white text illustrations; full red cloth gilt; one corner a little bumped, text clean and sound, fine in a fine dust jacket and original slipcase. "Curiously, to date, no single volume has covered the history of Buddhist book illuminations. Thus, for the first time, two eminent scholars of Buddhist art . have written a concise and highly readable account of the history of this little-known, but facinating subject covering India, Nepal, Tibet, Sri Lanka, Burma, Thailand, Indonesia, China, Japan and Korea.".

Zustand: Fine. Ravi Kumar 1988 in custom slipcase. book still sealed.