Chinese Pictorial Art (presentation copy)

A$550 · Offered by Douglas Stewart Fine Books

Limited edition

Shanghai : Commercial Press, 1914. First edition. Quarto, silk-covered boards, lettered in gilt (edges rubbed and frayed, the upper board detached and held in place only by the delicate silk), pp. 324, [iv], [ii], 74, [ii], illustrated with 32 colour plates, with a signed presentation inscription from the author. Illustrated catalogue of a collection of artworks recently been acquired by Herr Klas Fahraeus, of Brevik, Stockholm . An important record of one of the most significant private collections of Chinese art held in Scandinavia at the time, later dispersed at auction.

• Binding: Hardcover

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