String of Chinese Peach Stones - Couverture souple

Cornaby, W.Arthur

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 9971490668 ISBN 13 : 9789971490669

Editeur : Graham Brash (Pte.) Ltd ,Singapore, 1988

Synopsis

String of Chinese Peach Stones, A

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Présentation de l'éditeur

I llustrations. The seals on the back of the cover contain the Chinese name, etc., of the author, and the brazier on the title-page has inscribed upon it the title of the book inC hinese. The illustrations are, many of them (reduced) facsimiles of Chinese pictures of various penmanship, while the bulk are composed on the style of the best drawings in one or other of the two native (photo-lithographed) illustrated papers of Shanghai, to whose artists (unknown) the writer must here express his indebtedness. Thanks are also due toD r. Fryer of the Kiang-nan A rsenal, Shanghai, for his kind loan of the one surviving impression from a block (since stolen), engraved with the portrait of Cheng Kwoh-fan. At the other end of the scale, thanks have already been rendered to a vendor of watermelon slices inH ankow streets, who was generous enough to give to a passing foreigner a character-formed picture of an ox, whose doleful proportions he was studying. Such little incidents are as cheering as willow trees in the somewhat dreary expanse, as it seems, of many parts of China. VIEW OF THE PLAIN NORTH OF HANKOW.
(Typographical errors above are due to OCR software and don't occur in the book.)

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Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Graham Brash (Pte.) Ltd ,Singapore
• Date d'édition: 1988
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 9971490668
• ISBN 13: 9789971490669
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 494
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible