Catalogue of Chinese Art Objects Including Porcelains, Potteries, Jades, Bronzes, and Cloisonné Enamels Collected by Edward R. Bacon with Illustrations in Colour and Photogravure.
by Getz, John
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- Hardcover
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About This Item
New York: 1919. Privately printed for Virginia P. Bacon by the De Vinne Press, this copy numbered 49 of an unspecified but very small number of copies for private circulation. Quarter bound in brown calf with matching marbled boards and marbled endpapers, the spine gilt with 5 raised bands. xvii + 316 pages, with engraved frontispiece portrait of R. Bacon by Anders Zorn, and LXIII plates, the majority monochrome but some in colour. 31 x 25cms. With 625 catalogue entries, including Qing dynasty vases, 100 pieces from the Ming Dynastry, and celadon wares among others. Text in English.
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- Thomas Heneage Art Books (GB)
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- Title
- Catalogue of Chinese Art Objects Including Porcelains, Potteries, Jades, Bronzes, and Cloisonné Enamels Collected by Edward R. Bacon with Illustrations in Colour and Photogravure.
- Author
- Getz, John
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- New York: 1919.
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- Gilt
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- Raised Band(s)
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- Calf
- Calf or calf hide is a common form of leather binding. Calf binding is naturally a light brown but there are ways to treat the...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....