CHINESE FURNITURE by Clunas, Craig - 1997

London: V & A Publications, 1997. 119pp., printed, patterned endpapers. Illustrated throughout: colour and b/white halftone plates. Book clean and square. Spine firm, vivid silver title there-on. Plain black boards nominally bumped. Textblock unmarked. Photographic, colour-plate illustrated, loose-plastic protected dustjacket slightly edgeworn only. Originally published in 1988, by Bamboo Publishing Ltd., London. "Chinese Furniture" is a detailed investigative study of the Victoria and Albert Museum's collection of Chinese furniture, one of the largest and most important collections outside China . . . Contents include: Prelims., Introduction, Sources for the study of Chinese furniture, Seat Furniture, Materials of Chinese furniture, Tables and other platforms, Traditional Chinese furniture in the Modern World, Notes, Index. Book weight approx. 660g. . First Thus. Hardcover and Dustjacket. Very Good +/Very Good +. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.