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Good. Size: 11x9x0; Light edge wear to wrapper with rubbing to corners and spine. Foxing to top edge. The binding is tight, text and images unmarked. 4to. 232pp.
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Very good. 1984 Paperback, No former owner's name or marks. Text is clean, binding is strong. B&W and Color illustrations. Very slight rubber corners. Black illustrated Cover. **NO International and NO Expedited shipping available for this large, heavy book/ set. **
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VG-contents, clean and tight; light general shelf wear to covers and bookplate of well-known collector. Black wraps with color illustration and yellow lettering. 232 pp. with 270 color and bw illustrations. Catalogue from the silmultaneous exhibitions of July to September 1984 at the Philadelphia Museum of Art: Philadelphians and the China Trade, 1784-1844 and The Canton Connection: Ships, Captains and Cargoes. Preface by Anne d'Harnoncourt. With an introductory title essay by Jean Gordon Lee, an essay by Philip Chadwick Foster Smith (Philadelphia Displays "The Flowery Flag"), the extensive catalogue with each of the 270 items annotated, a section of abbreviations and bibliography, and an index of the families represented in the catalogue. The catalogue itself is organized by the family names: Biddle, Chew & Wilcocks, Cope, Eckfeldt, Mifflin, Morris, Rush, Sansom, Volans, Girard, Jenkins, and more. Included are items of silver, toys and games, porcelain, costumes and textiles, paintings of the sailing ships and portraiture, furniture, and more, much of it brought back by the family members from China to the US. Also includes. Several portraits of the family members; beautiful fans; ivory, tea caddies, lacquerware, etc. A very informative catalogue about an intriguing part of history. "Local merchants looked to China as an inexpensive producer of well-made, Western-style goods." The exhibition highlighed works of porcelain, silks, furniture, carvings and more, all commissioned by Philadelphians, beginning in the late 1700s. "Decorative arts made for Philadelphians are among the finest Chinese objects produced for export to America."
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Pbk 4to 232pp profusely illustr light shelfwear to covers with a mild bump lower front prev owner's name neatly on half-title page otherwise a very good clean tight unmarked copy.
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Very Good. Book 232 pages. Paperback exhibition catalogue. Texts in English. Mild wear to the edges, with some vertical creasing to the spine. Else, the binding is tight, the interior clean and free of markings. Well illustrated, mostly in black and white, bound in stiff illustrated paper covers and published on the occasion of the exhibition.
