JINWEN BIAN: (Compilation of Inscriptions on Ancient Bronzes)

32x23cm, Various paginations of folded leaves. Many hundreds of b/w reproductions of pictograms and characters throughout. // The main text comprises 14 juan, the appendix 2 juan and the index 1 juan. Second edition (first edition 1925), with additional appendix and index.Shows many hundreds of wonderful and fascinating pictograms, early characters and inscriptions on ancient Chiense bronzes, Compiled and edited by the eminent early twentieth century scholar of ancient China, Rong Geng. A rare and important early contribution. Published by the Commercial Press. Text in Chinese.The five stitched volumes have been (slightly later?) rebound and protected in two hardback volumes. Waterstain to top margin throughout the first rebound volume which contains the first two of the five stitched volumes. Text and images unaffected. The second rebound volume clean. Otherwise some miinor creasing.