Warner

1921 · ref. 53889 — New York: Tarrytown 1921. First edition. Hardcover. Good to very good condition. Folio. 135pp. Original quarter black leather over black paper-covered boards with decorative gilt ruling and emblem on cover with gilt lettering on decorative framed beige leather label of spine. Black endpapers. Color frontispiece tipped in with tissue guard captioned in red. Title page printed in blue and black with publisher's device. Printed to heavy handmade paper. Illustrated with fifty-four photo-offset depictions of oriental objects with black framing pasted to pages; sixteen in color. The objects included are from the Chou Dynasty Han Dynasty Wei Dynasty the Six Dynasties T'ang Dynasty Sung Dynasty Ming Dynasty and the Ch'ing Dynasty. They include pottery and porcelains heads and tomb pottery necklaces and buckles a miniature from the Ming dynasty a gong an incense burner several bronzes among others. Some light wear to binding small chips and bumps. Three in closed tear at lower front joint of binding. Lightly starting at inside front cover. Tarrytown hardcover books