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EARLY CHINESE PAINTINGS: A.W. BAHR COLLECTION.
by SIREN, Osvald
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- Hardcover
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About This Item
London 1938, Chiswick Press. Black cloth, top gilt, 116p., index, 18 color, 18 b.w. tipped in plates, 28 x 41.5 cm. minor corner, head/tail spine wear, else a very nice solid copy. FIRST & ONLY LIMITED EDITION OF 750 NUMBERED COPIES This an important and scholarly Bahr collection catalogue. It is an essential and scarce reference source. This work covers 25 fine examples of the greatest Chinese paintings found in the world-famous Bahr Collection. * Each item is carefully described and annotated by the celebrated art-historian and Sinologist, Osvald Siren. * ISSUED IN A LIMITED NUMBERED EDITION OF ONLY 750 COPIES. This work was issued in a FIRST and ONLY single LIMITED EDITION OF 750 NUMBERED COPIES, each of which were hand numbered in pen. * The publisher printed a few "over-runs" or extra copies to insure at least 750 pristine & flawless complete copies. There few extra and flawless copies were then bound up in the identical cloth, without hand numbering, they are called "out of sequence." They were distributed to the author & publisher for presentation to personal friends. They retain the same value as the other copies. There was a very small number of the "over-runs" issued for this purpose that occasionally reach the market. Because the book was published in a very small edition it has always been hard to find. * Printed in a Deluxe edition, on heavy deckle-edge paper, gold stamped titles, hand numbered [or "out-of-sequence"] with Siren's lucid introductory essay, each plate has a tissue guard protecting it, as usual there are some with wrinkles, by and large nice condition. * BIBLIOGRAPHY: Not in Arntzen & Rainwater. **** .
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- Rare Oriental Book Company, ABAA, ILAB - AN ART AND INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY COMPANY
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- Title
- EARLY CHINESE PAINTINGS: A.W. BAHR COLLECTION.
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- SIREN, Osvald
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- Used -
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Keywords
- Chinese Art: References On All Aspects & Disciplines; Chinese Painting: Illustrated Art Reference Books; Osvald Siren: Any By/about The Great Swedish Sinologist & Art Scholar; Rare Sinica, Important Items About China: Eclectic, All Disciplines;
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