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Chinese seals
by T. C. Lai
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very good/fine
- Seller
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Gridley, California, United States
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About This Item
Seattle: University of Washington, 1976. First American Edition. Cloth. Very good/fine. A very good first American edition in a fine dust jacket. Book is very mildly cocked and has foxing on the fore edge only. Text and illustrations are clean and bright. Binding is tight. xx, 200 pages, 2 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations throughout. Octavo. A brief survey of the history and development of seals and their application in Chinese life, art, culture, and calligraphy. Color images of Chinese seals on nearly every page. Two poems Of seals and kings Seal artists The aesthetics of seals Hsien Chang : 'leisure seals' Some seal scripts Pictographic seals.
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- Bookseller
- Uncommon Works
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1382
- Title
- Chinese seals
- Author
- T. C. Lai
- Format/Binding
- Cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Very good
- Jacket Condition
- fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First American Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- University of Washington
- Place of Publication
- Seattle
- Date Published
- 1976
- Bookseller catalogs
- Art, Architecture & Music;
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About the Seller
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Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Cocked
- Refers to a state where the spine of a book is lightly "twisted" in such a way that the front and rear boards of a book do not...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Leaves
- Very generally, "leaves" refers to the pages of a book, as in the common phrase, "loose-leaf pages." A leaf is a single sheet...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Fore Edge
- The portion of a book that is opposite the spine. That part of a book which faces the wall when shelved in a traditional...
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