Jie zi yuan hua zhuan 芥子園畫傳 Mustard Seed Garden Manual of Painting

by Gai 王槩 Wang

$35,000 · Offered by Jonathan A. Hill Bookseller

1782. Numerous five-color woodblock illus. Five juan in five vols. Large 8vo, new wrappers, new stitching. China : 1782 . The first series of this famous multicolor-printed painting manual. “There has been no other painting manual that has enjoyed wider circulation in China and Japan than the Mustard Seed Garden Manual of Painting...in the past three centuries” Gillian Yanzhuang Zhang, “Making a Canonical Work: A Cultural History

• Binding: Wrappers

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