THE PRINTS OF THE TEN BAMBOO STUDIO ( Selected Texts From THE GREAT STUDY ~ THE CONSTANT MIDDLE ~ CONVERSATIONS BETWEEN CONFUCIUS AND HIS DISCIPLES) : Followed By Plates FromThe KAEMPFER SERIES And PERFECT HARMONY

tan hardbound 4to ~ 4º (quarto). large book. dustwrapper in protective plastic book jacket cover. fine cond. binding square & tight. covers clean. edges clean. tiny scratch on front flyleaf, otherwise contents free of markings. dustwrapper in near fine cond. 1" tear at spine top, not price clipped (no price listed). nice clean copy. no library markings or store stamps, no stickers or bookplates, no names, no inking , no underlining, no remainder markings etc ~. first english edition. first printing (letter "a" in letter line). ~ Please Note: book is larger than scanner so the photos are a bit cropped. color decorative endpapers. 124p. glossy pages throughout. every page illustrated in full glossy color. art history. chinese history. painting. philosophy. chinese literature. poetry. ~This book contains reproductions, with commentaries, of plates from a treatise of Chinese painting first published in 1619 and which always been considered as a classic in China. These plates have often been reproduced in the West, but very rarely in color; the color transparencies used in our edition were made specially for us by the British Museum. In addition the book contains some outstandingly beautiful plates from the Kaempfer Series, a famous collection of ancient Chinese lithographic masterpieces, also provided by the British Museum, as well as the complete reproduction of a work entitled Perfect Harmony (Musee Guimet des Arts d'Orient, Paris), which has never been reproduced before. Most of the plates include a short poem in Chinese characters, for which a translation is of course provided. The reproductions are accompanied by quotations from Confucius, Meng T'Seu, etc.…