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Seller's Description:
Near Fine in Fine jacket. 1st Printing. 4to-over 9¾-12" tall. pp. 309. In English, not in Chinese. Presumed first printing of the first English language edition. Preceded by the Chinese language publication of 1995. Printed and bound in Hong Kong. 12 x 9 inches. Bound in white cloth, with cinnabar red-stamped lettering to the spine. Unbumped spine head and tail, and with sharp corners. Text block firmly bound in. Handsome pastedowns-FEPs in a discreet light gray pattern. Moderate page waviness towards the outer edge of all pages. 309 numbered pages, all heavy coated stock. With over 350 color and monochrome illustrations, including more than 100 full-color, dull-page plates. An impressively clean interior. No stains, stampings or underlining noticed. With the heavy-duty full-pictorial dust jacket. This copy almost certainly unread. A Near Fine copy in a Fine DJ. 4 lbs. 8 oz. From the DJ blurb: "Furniture made in the Qing Dynasty [1644-1911] falls into two categories, either that created during the period or based on the previous Ming dynasty. Tian Jiaqing, a major student of Wang Shixiang [1914-2009], the current expert on Qing furniture, has devoted many years to research on Chinese decorative art.."
