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HU CHENG-YEN: A Chinese Wood-Engraver and Picture-Printer. Chinese Color Prints from the Ten Bamboo Hall: A Monograph on the Life and Work of the Engraver Hu Cheng-yen
by JAN TSCHICHOLD (EDITOR) EUDO C. MASON
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- Seller
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Brighton, East Sussex, United Kingdom
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About This Item
BASLE: HOLBEIN PUBLISHING, 1946 Slate Blue paper covered limp boards with laid on title slip in dust jacket with laid on colour plate and original slip case. 280 x 325 mm approx landscape format.16 pp + List of Plates + 16 colour plates as called for.First English Edition 1946 translated by Eudo C. Mason. Please see our images of the actual book offered for sale for further details and condition. VG/ VG in Good slip case. (Book- portfolio of plates and text pages loose in binding, no sign of glue residue to cloth spine so possibly as issued, no previous owner name or insc. Minor rubbing to edges of some pages but no nicks or tears and contents clean. Dust Jacket - 10 mm approx tear to top front panel else no notable defects and now in a removable proprietary protective sleeve. 2 cm loss of card to one of the longest edges and a little tanned and rubbed. No other notable defects).
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- Bookseller
- booksonlinebrighton
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 129115
- Title
- HU CHENG-YEN: A Chinese Wood-Engraver and Picture-Printer. Chinese Color Prints from the Ten Bamboo Hall: A Monograph on the Life and Work of the Engraver Hu Cheng-yen
- Author
- JAN TSCHICHOLD (EDITOR) EUDO C. MASON
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Publisher
- HOLBEIN PUBLISHING
- Place of Publication
- BASLE
- Date Published
- 1946
- Keywords
- Hu Cheng-Yen, Chinese Wood Engravings, The Ten Bamboo Hall, Jan Tschichold, Eudo C. Mason Translator,
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