The Chinese Purse: Embroidered Purses of the Ch'ing Dynasty

Language: English

Published by Heian International, Union City, CA, 1992

0893463833 / 9780893463830

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Glossy black and color-illustrated wraps with tan lettering. 120 pp. Mainly color illustrations. "A variety of purses are shown in this book, made by housewives as well as skilled masters, some extremely elaborate and fanciful, others naive and simples. The purpose of this book is to present this art form with regard to the way it was practiced; it was both a popular handicraft and a great art worth devoting one's life to." -preface. VG- (wraps pulling from book at spine. light corner/edge wear and scuffing to wraps).

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Title
The Chinese Purse: Embroidered Purses of the Ch'ing Dynasty
Author
Wang, Loretta H.
Publisher
Heian International, Union City, CA
Publication year
1992
Binding
Softcover
Language
English
ISBN 10
0893463833
ISBN 13
9780893463830
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Asian Decorative Arts, Costume / Dress - Asian

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Mullen Books maintains a very active computerized inventory which grows by 2-300 titles per week. Our specialties include the Humanities, with an emphasis on Art, Architecture, Photography, Decorative Arts, History, as well as Periodicals related to those areas. We have very rare as well as fairly common titles. Current inventory is approximately 79,000 titles. We have about 1000' of backlog in our specialties numbering over 30,000 items (including 20,000+ smaller and ephemeral catalogues devoted to individual artist exhibitions). Current stock occupies over 2.3 miles of shelving. We are active buyers as well as very active sellers, and supply entire reference libraries as well as individual titles. We ship books almost everywhere, with the exception of China due to restrictions. Our website mullenbooks.com maintains our entire database of over 150,000 titles dynamically, so you can submit "wants" for books which are listed, but not currently in-stock. It is a major research tool. Despite what Google may indicate, we are only open to visitors by appointment, as our schedules are dynamic depending upon the needs of our valued employees.

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