(China) The Marvellous Book: An Album Containing One Hundred Studies of Famous Chinese Porcelains Reproduced in Full Colors, Complete with Descriptive and Historical Notes in English French, German, Spanish, Italian and Chinese Author: Talbot, Star Place Published: Shanghai Publisher: S. Talbot & Sons Date Published: 1930 Description: Unpaginated. 102 color plates from photographs, interleaved with printed tissue guards. 33x26 cm (13x10¼"), green cloth, stamped in gilt. One of 1000 copies. First Edition. Inscribed and signed by the author. With mounted memorandum describing collector Star Talbot and related newspaper clippings on the endpapers. Scarce work on Chinese porcelain with beautiful color photographs. Condition: Spine strip lost and replaced with cloth tape, minor wear to edges of boards; front hinge cracked, with text block separating from tape, tissue guards for 67-72 are lost, plates largely clean and bright throughout; very good. Item#: 341132b Headline: Talbot's book of Chinese Porcelain, signed
(China) The Marvellous Book: An Album Containing One Hundred Studies of Famous Chinese Porcelains Reproduced in Full Colors, Complete with Descriptive and Historical Notes in English French, German, Spanish, Italian and Chinese Author: Talbot, Star Place Published: Shanghai Publisher: S. Talbot & Sons Date Published: 1930 Description: Unpaginated. 102 color plates from photographs, interleaved with printed tissue guards. 33x26 cm (13x10¼"), green cloth, stamped in gilt. One of 1000 copies. First Edition. Inscribed and signed by the author. With mounted memorandum describing collector Star Talbot and related newspaper clippings on the endpapers. Scarce work on Chinese porcelain with beautiful color photographs. Condition: Spine strip lost and replaced with cloth tape, minor wear to edges of boards; front hinge cracked, with text block separating from tape, tissue guards for 67-72 are lost, plates largely clean and bright throughout; very good. Item#: 341132b Headline: Talbot's book of Chinese Porcelain, signed
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