Song ta chun hua ge tie you xiang ben 宋拓淳化閣帖 Model Books of Calligraphy from the Imperial Archives of the Chunhua Reign Period

by Zhu Wang

$4,000 · Offered by Jonathan A. Hill Bookseller · No longer available

More than 400 collotypes. Ten vols. Small folio, orig. blue wrappers, orig. block-printed title labels on upper covers, orig. stitching. From the colophon in trans. : Shanghai: Shang wu yin shu guan, 1924. A fine and very rare edition of the earliest calligraphy collection of China. “In 992, the third year of the Chunhua reign 990-995 , by command of the Song dynasty Emperor Zhao Jiong reigned 976-998 , the Court Calligrapher Wang Zhu selected

• Binding: Wrappers

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