Cobbold rev r (3 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. 1st Edition. Hardcover: Good, 20 x 14 cm, IV + 219 + 77 pl., English, 1st Edition, illustrations, book condition: Good The original hardcover shows damage, the binding is intact but somewhat pulled. With frontispiece and 35 page-sized woodcuts and 42 woodcuts in the text. Cobbold was dean of Ningpo for 8 years. The images referred to in the title are reproductions of line drawings depicting Chinese professions, such as street musicians, doctors, priests, and collectors of waste, hair, and paper. [This description may have been translated by AI.]. …

Pp. vi, 219. With frontispiece, 34 full page drawing illustrations and many textual illustrations. Near contemporary half calf on marbled boards, somewhat rubbed. Old ownership signature on title page. Some minor staining. First edition of a charming work about various Chinese professions each accompanied by a pen-and-ink etching by a native artist. Some examples: the lantern-seller, the blind fortune-teller, the opium smoker, the physiognomy, the scavenger, street beggars, etc. The author served as Archdeacon at the treaty port of Ningpo for a period of eight years. Cordier BS 90.…

Hardback, approx 8 x 5 inches. In banded and textured green cloth cover with gilt lettering to spine and decorations to ends, gilt figurative illustration to front and blind embossed design to rear. In very good condition. Original green cloth cover. Cloth split at top end of spine, small nicks at bottom end. Corners bumped. Small chip/hole to cloth on rear spine edge. Later endpapers (original endpapers removed.) Neat glue repairs to binding of first couple of pages. Some occasional handling/thumb marks to pages, some very minor light foxing to a couple of plates. Else a very good clean and tight copy. Scarce. iv + 219pp. (220pp.) Illustrated with 34 toned plates (numbered 1-30, includes 4 plates ?The Cookshop?, and frontis plate.) Many B&W woodcuts within text, including some full page, and one on very last page. (Scarce in original binding.).…