First edition, first printing. xxiv, 226pp [plus 180pp plates], richly illustrated with 506 illustrations on 168pp, four coloured plates, eight inset plates and one map. Red cloth-covered boards with gilt lettering on upper panel and gilt decorations and titles on black relief on spine. 4to. Cloth a little worn, gently rubbed on corners and around a sunned spine. Upper text block edge darkened and marked. Foxed on endpapers and first and last few leaves else internally neat, clean, bright and tight.
Handsome and imposingly heavy volume. One of the earliest written works on Korean Art, in which Eckhardt (1884-1974) argues that the chief defining characteristic of Korean art is simplicity and that the Korean people have a natural sense of elegance and beauty.
