Old Chinese Porcelain and Works of Art in China. Being Description and Illustrations of Articles Selected from an Exhibition Held in Shanghai, November, 1908
by BAHR, A.W
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- Hardcover
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Lewes, East Sussex, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London: Cassell and Company, Limited, 1911.. First edition. (viii), 160, (2) pp. Publisher's green morocco cloth, gilt lettering in English and Chinese to the spine and upper board. Frontispiece and 120 plates - 108 black and white photographs plus 12 colour printed plates with tissues. A few trivial marks to the covers, very good.
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- Bookseller
- Bow Windows Bookshop (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 37707
- Title
- Old Chinese Porcelain and Works of Art in China. Being Description and Illustrations of Articles Selected from an Exhibition Held in Shanghai, November, 1908
- Author
- BAHR, A.W
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- London: Cassell and Company, Limited
- Date Published
- 1911.
- Keywords
- Art China Porcelain
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About the Seller
Bow Windows Bookshop
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Lewes, East Sussex
About Bow Windows Bookshop
Bow Windows Bookshop has a large general stock of old and fine books and maps. Owned in partnership by Ric Latham and Jonathan Menezes, we buy and sell all manner of titles from early leatherbound volumes to modern first editions. We exhibit at bookfairs in the UK and North America and issue regular printed catalogues. Located in the beautiful county town of Lewes in the south-east of England, we are open six days a week. All our books are described as accurately as possible and we abide by the Code of Good Practice of the Antiquarian Booksellers Association
Glossary
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- Morocco
- Morocco is a style of leather book binding that is usually made with goatskin, as it is durable and easy to dye. (see also...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...