Jade

Spring Books, London, 1967. First Edition. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Ordinary/Poor. 44 pages of text, then 54 color plateson unpaginated pages. Black and white illustrated frontispiece showing a facimile of an old Oriental page on how to work jade. The text is illustrated with the aforementioned plates as well as 8 black & white text drawings. Green coloured boards with gilt Oriental symbol to the lower right hand corner of the front panel and gilt writing to the spine. Bumping to the head and to the heel of the spine and there is also fading of the cloth. Fading of the cloth has also occurred to the top and bottom book edges and there is little " flaring " to the top right-hand corner of the front panel. Fading has also occurred on other places of the boards as well. Light browning to the paper edges. Browning to the end papers and to the internal pages and there are a few handling marks as well. Gift inscription to the top edge of the free front endpaper. Photographic dustwrapper, showing various forms of antique jade ornamentation, with black and green writing on the front panel and black on the spine. The dustwrapper is rubbed, faded and pretty poor shape. Rubbing and chipping to the dustwrapper corners, the top being worse than the bottom. Small tears to the top front dustwrapper edge with associated creasing. The back panel has suffered the worst damage. There is a 0.25 " tear to the top rear dustwrapper at the edge with associated creasing, a small piece missing from the top edge and a larger piece missing measuring 2.25 " x 1 ". There is a tear that runs the full width of the spine 2 " from the top edge and on the lower right hand corner of the front panel there is the remains of a rough removal of a sticker. Some creasing to the front fold over edge has also occurred. A small history of a mineral that has been used for over 4000 years by the Chinese, the Maori of New Zealand and the Aztecs, to name a few -- Jade. This is the first UK edition. Size: 4to 9¾" - 12" tall. We are happy to provide pictures of this book on request Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Antiques & Collectibles; Art -- History and Theory; Art -- Primitive; Gemstones; Art & Design. Inventory No: 0103820. .