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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 poemsOf seals and kingsSeal artistsThe aesthetics of sealsHsien Chang : 'leisure seals'Some seal scriptsPictographic seals.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1976. First American Edition. Hardcover. Fine/near fine. A fine first American edition in a very near fine, unclipped dust jacket. Brown embossed cloth with gilt stamping on spine. Half-title shows a binder's error where page was left partially uncut and folded in. Binding is strong and square on this large and heavy volume. Full page sepia plates of the artists' work throughout. Dust jacket shows a small stain to back cover and mildest of shelf wear. Dust jacket now protected in a clear, removable, archival cover. 363 pp. plus index, i-viii. Quarto, 10 x 11 inches tall. Shipping may be extra on this large and heavy volume. In 1843 painter David Octavius Hill joined engineer Robert Adamson to form Scotland's first photographic studio. During their brief partnership that ended with Adamson's untimely death, Hill & Adamson produced "the first substantial body of self-consciously artistic work using the newly invented medium of photography."… Read More

Berlin: Deutsch Buch-Geimenschaft, ca. 1929. 1/4 cloth. Very good. A very good printing with no date, believed to be around 1929. Complete in two volumes. Text in German. Brown quarter cloth over decorated paper boards. Gilt and red title stamping on spine. Corners rubbed. Binding is sturdy, though mildly cocked. No markings. 783 pp., continuously numbered. Duodecimo, 5 1/2 x 7 1/2 inches tall.

East Aurora, NY: The Roycrofters, 1912. Miriam Edition. Quarter leather. Very good +. A very good plus edition crafted by the Roycrofters with traditional bookbinding and papermaking methods. White quarter leather spine under heavy gray paper boards with fine gilt stamping on front cover and gray paper spine. Some loss of paper on spine at head and tail. Heavy wear to corners. Deckle page edges. Top edge gilt. Frontis with loose tissue guard. Illustrated with plate of the artists, tissue intact. Accent motifs around some of the text. 148 pp. plus colophon. Octavo, 6 x 8 inches tall. Best known as the the initiator of the Arts and Crafts community of Roycroft, Hubbard was an anarchist, a socialist, and followed a philosophy of mental and spiritual freedom. Some of his works, which include Jesus Was an Anarchist and a A Message to Garcia, were listed as offensive by the US government. He and his wife died aboard the Lusitania.