FICKE, ARTHUR DAVISON — Twelve Japanese Painters

Chicago, IL: Ralph Fletcher Seymour, 1913. Limited Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. Illustrated by Mr. Frederick W. Gookin. Cover Art; SIGNED EDITION. This edition is limited to 250 copies, of which 100 are for sale. This copy has been signed by the author, with an inscription, on the front endpaper. This book is in Very Good+ condition and is lacking a dust jacket. The front cover of the book has gilt lettering and gilt and white illustrations. The spine ends of the book covers have some lightish bumping, rubbing and beginning fraying. The text pages are clean and bright, though there is lightish generalized toning. "A native of Davenport, Iowa, Ficke is associated with other local writers known as the Davenport group. His work was influenced by Japanese artistic traditions, which he had been familiar with since childhood; his father, an art dealer, imported Japanese art in the last decade of the nineteenth century, when it was extremely popular. Ficke wrote several popular treatises on Japanese art during his career, among them Chats on Japanese Prints, published in 1915." (from Wikipedia) ; Signed by Author. Very Good+ .