Chinese Art [2 volumes].
by Stephen W Bushell:
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Tewkesbury, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London: His Majesty's Stationery Office [Victoria and Albert Museum], 1909, 1910. Complete in two hardback volumes. 8vo (20cm by 14cm), 160pp; xiii, 158pp. 239 illustrations (104 in volume 1, 135 in volume 2). Original green cloth, gilt titling to the front boards and the spines. There is some rubbing of the bindings, light spotting to the preliminary pages and the edges of the text block, and a short ownership inscription to each volume; overall, this set is in good condition. This is a mixed edition set; volume 1 is a second edition (from 1909) and volume 2 is a first edition (from 1910).
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Details
- Bookseller
- Cornell Books Limited (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 75271
- Title
- Chinese Art [2 volumes].
- Author
- Stephen W Bushell:
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- London: His Majesty's Stationery Office [Victoria and Albert Museum], 1909, 1910.
- Note
- May be a multi-volume set and require additional postage.
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About the Seller
Cornell Books Limited
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Tewkesbury
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We are a medium-sized bookshop located in a small country town in the west of England. The shop is open for business from 1030 to 1700 Monday to Saturday. The building is a fifteenth-century former public house. We are still awaiting the day when we find a book older than the shop itself!
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- Cloth
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- First Edition
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- Rubbing
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- Gilt
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- Edges
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