CHINESE RUGS

First edition. A lovely high-quality, sturdy book first edition production that has thick-stock paper, a sewn binding, and impressive high-quality, high-contrast plates. Illustrated with a beautiful color frontispiece, thirty-two striking black-and-white plates, factory photographs, a map, and with a bounty of drawings depicting fibers, symbol figures and knots. A detailed, catalogued study with history, descriptions of features, colors, cultures, weaving, symbols, characteristics, identifying differences, methods, materials, religious influences, time periods, and locales. Also contains an illustrated guide to selecting a rug. Minor bumping to the front fore-edge, slight rub-wear to the upper and lower spine edges and corner tips, tiny cream soil-spot to the spine, several pages still unopened and uncut--one of which bears a fore-edge tear, else very good in blue linen with gilt embossed dragon and floral design, decorative borders and titles to the front cover, and with gilt embossed titles and a tooled flower to the spine, blue end-papers; no dust jacket. Octavo; 171 pages; preface; introduction; appendices; index.…