The Wares of the Ming Dynasty by Hobson, R.L - 1962

Rutland, Vermont: Charles E. Tuttle Company, 1962. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Faithful reprint of the original 1923 Benn Brothers publication, featuring numerous black-and-white illustrations and some full-color photographs. Definitions and illustrations of marks, inscriptions, and Chinese characters. Sturdy, attractive, tightly bound, internally clean hardcover copy, with unbruised tips, neat and tidy paste-downs; not ex-library, with neither highlighting nor underlining. Minor edge-wear at top front. Bright and shiny dust jacket, illustrated, showing minor wear at edges and spine, not price-clipped. Housed neatly in a cardboard slip-case, showing minor shelf- and edge-wear, but structurally sound. From the personal library of Master Appraiser of arts and antiques, John Scherz, of Killen, Alabama, and having been stored in dehumidified, darkened surroundings. 208 pp. + 59 pp. of black-and-white plates and one laid-in page of "Corrections of Page References in the Index." Additional postage may be required for oversize or especially heavy volumes, and for sets.