Non Western

Chinese Books

300 x 240 mm, paperback, 140 pages, 140 illustrations
PRICE: £30.00
ISBN: 978 0 953942 20 6

 

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By Wei Chen Hsuan. Edited by Crofton Black

This catalogue discusses and illustrates a wide variety of Chinese books, dating from the sixth to the nineteenth century -- some very rare.

In association with Sam Fogg


Hakob’s Gospels: The Life and Work of An Armenian Artist of the Sixteenth Century

In the winter of 1586, Hakob Jughayets'i, one of Armenia's most celebrated illuminators, completed work on a Gospel Book with an extensive and extraordinary programme of narrative miniatures and marginal figures. More

Provenance: Twelve Collectors of Ethnographic Art in England 1760–1990

Detailed biographies describe the lives of twelve collectors of tribal art in Britain, active between 1770 and 1990. These men were rarely field collectors and only occasional travellers, but they were vigorous hunters, for whom the pursuit, handling and possession of such objects was what mattered. More