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The Shop Signs of Peking by Fung, H. K - 1931

by Fung, H. K

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The Shop Signs of Peking by Fung, H. K - 1931

The Shop Signs of Peking

by Fung, H. K

  • Used
  • Fine
  • Hardcover
Peking: Chinese Painting Association of Peking, 1931. Original highly decorative patterned-paper boards with embroidered silk corners and hand-written cover label on silver; cloth spine and string cords in the Asian style. Some foxing to endpapers and some oxidation of metallic paints. A beautiful copy One of 100 unnumbered copies. Eighteen leaves with 101 hand-colored illustrations of shop signs advertising various trades, highlighted in gold and silver with Chinese and English captions. Shops include pawn shop, apothecary, baker, public bath, goldsmith, and purveyors of swords, funeral garments, ginger, wine, and many others..
  • Bookseller Marilyn Braiterman Rare Books US (US)
  • Format/Binding Hardcover
  • Book Condition Used - Fine
  • Quantity Available 1
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Publisher Chinese Painting Association of Peking
  • Place of Publication Peking
  • Date Published 1931
  • Size Small Oblong Folio
  • Keywords Peking, Beijing, China, Shop Signs, Trades, Hand Colored
  • Size Small Oblong Folio

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The Shop Signs of Peking: Illustrations Hand Painted. Limited to 100 Copies

by Fung, H. K

  • Used
  • near fine
  • Hardcover
  • first
Condition
Used - Near Fine
Edition
First Limited Edition
Binding
Hardcover
Quantity Available
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New York, New York, United States
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Peking, China: Chinese Painting Association of Peking, 1931. First Limited Edition. Stab binding. Cloth strips by "spine". Boards covered with brocade fabric. . Near Fine. Vivid, bright renderings of the lively Chinese business signs to signal the broad array of enterprises. Signs often have distinctive shapes, and most are ones suspended like mobiles with cord. Oblong 4to. 26.5 by 34 cm. 18 leaves, the 15 with hand-colored renderings of the signs paginated 1 to 15. With 101 painted signs. With the original brocade fabric boards bound together with thick string. Some edge wear to the fabric on the boards, and minor loss along the edges of this fabric. Light offsetting of the imagery, but overall, an uncommonly clean copy.
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