Anna Hotchkis (2 results)

Hardcover with dust jacket. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+. First Edition. Small 4to. Pp. xx, 156. Frontis. reproduction color painting, tipped-in, by Anna M. Hotchkis. Preface by Lionel H. Lamb. Lavishly illustrated throughout with black & white drawings and color paintings by the authors, the latter tipped-in. Index. Endpaper maps. Bound in blue cloth with gilt lettering stamped on spine. Sunning to upper edges. In the dust jacket with original price of HK$75 intact on front flap. Dust jacket shows rubbing to edges and general wear. Increasingly scarce. Dust jacket is now housed in a clear, removable archival sleeve. Mary August Mullikin and Anna M. Hotchkis (illustrator).…

First Edition. First edition, large 8vo, pp. 66; original pictorial wrappers bound in; map, frontispiece, 8 mounted color plates, many other illustrations throughout, some full-page; wrappers with some soiling and short tears, text block with several modest creases, p. 51 with soil mark in the margin; all else very good and sound in a later ochre cloth binding lettered in black on upper cover and spine. A bifoliate prospectus for the book is laid in. "The Yun Kang Caves go back to the dawn of Buddhism in China, when the new religion was introduced by Tartar invaders in the fifth century. The sculptures reveal an ecstasy of religious fervour which gave a great inspiration to the art not only of China but of Korea and Japan. Buddha is the theme of all the carvings-the Contemplation of Buddha, the Adoration of Buddha, and the Chronicle of His Life. Forgotten for centuries, the caves are now accessible. Hundreds of art pilgrims from all over the world come to see them every year" (from the prospectus). Mullikin and Hotchkis, an American and a Scottish artist respectively, met in China and traveled extensively there, including two artistic journeys to the caves at Yungang.…