Les Peintures Chinoises dans les Collections D'angleterre. Ars Asiatica. IX by Laurence Binyon - 1927

Paris: Paris et Bruxelles Librairie Nationale D'art et Histoire G. Van Oest, 1927. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Very Good. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Text in French. Illustrations in black and white. Rebound in brown cloth board with gilt titles on spine. Original front and back softcovers kept. Spine head slightly worn. Marble design endpapers. Pencil marks on the precedent page of original front cover. A red seal on title page. A very few foxing. Internally clean, tight, and very good. A rare beautiful and valuable magnificent French edition volume on Chinese paintings in English collections, 68 pages of text introduction and description with a number of biographical details provided with Mr. Arthur Waley. Illustrated with 64 photographic plates reproduction of Chinese ancient paintings and drawings. It is a very valuable book for anybody interested in the Chinese paintings, especially those brought by Sir Aurel Stein from Tun Huang, some of which previously been published by Mr. Binyon. Laurence Binyon, in full Robert Laurence Binyon, (10 August 1869-10 March 1943), English poet, dramatist, and art historian, a pioneer in the European study of Far Eastern painting. Born in Lancaster, England, his parents were Frederick Binyon, a clergyman, and Mary Dockray, he studied at St Paul's School, London. at Trinity College, Oxford, where he won the Newdigate Prize for poetry in 1891. He worked for the British Museum from 1893 until his retirement in 1933. He wrote numerous books on art, in particular on William Blake, Persian art, and Japanese art. His work on ancient Japanese and Chinese cultures offered strongly contextualized examples that inspired, among others, the poets Ezra Pound and W. B. Yeats. This heavy book will require extra shipping cost. Size: 10.8x13.7x1.6 inches. 68 pages.