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Chinese Jades in the Stanley Charles Nott Collection; Being an Illustrated Descriptive Record: Exhaustively Reviewing the Symbolic Ritualistic Appurtenances of Chinese Jades and Their Various Sacrificial Usages. Describing Fully the Involved Formulas



Author:

NOTT, STANLEY CHARLES (Compiled) & YUTANG, Dr. LIN (Intro) & MENG, Dr. CHIH (Fore)

Title:

Chinese Jades in the Stanley Charles Nott Collection; Being an Illustrated Descriptive Record: Exhaustively Reviewing the Symbolic Ritualistic Appurtenances of Chinese Jades and Their Various Sacrificial Usages. Describing Fully the Involved Formulas

Publisher:

The Norton Gallery and School of Art 1942

Description:

LIMITED NUMBERED EDITION (#508/1000), lg quarto, green buckram boards, gilt lettering & rule to spine & front board, page edges stained green, illus eps, frontispiece, xvi + 536pp + cxviii plates, illus, VG (moderate chipping to board & spine extrems/edges, light chafing & scuffing to spine & boards, fading to coloured page edges, sm ex-libris plate + prev. bookseller's labe to front pastedown, light cracking to some gutters throughout, sl tanning & foxing to pgs throughout, sl tanning to eps)

Keywords:

Chinese jade collection Stanley Charles Nott illustrated antiquity history religion religious uses rituals superstitions

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