Henri Vever
June 26, 2009
- One of the things I love about buying old books is the possibility that someone might have left a little something extra inside them for you... a bus ticket, a newspaper cutting, or some other little gem. I bought a second set of the original Henri Vever collection sale catalogues that were compiled by Jack Hillier, complete with their green dust jackets, a little while back and this incomplete ...
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October 20, 2008
- When I first became interested in Japanese prints I was a teenager, so I couldn't afford to go out and buy an Utamaro or Hokusai broadsheet, as much as I would have loved to. Initially I relied upon reference books to get a feel for the artists and their respective designs, learning as much as I could about the subject without any access to the actual prints. Some of the oldest books on the ...
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