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1924 Two Gentlemen of China
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Description
Decorative Binding, Illustrated, Original Binding, Publishers' Original Binding, Very Scarce
The third edition of this engaging, illustrated cultural work of ethnography in the publisher's original orange cloth with gilt Chinese pagoda embroidery. Two Gentlemen of China by Lady Hosie offers a profound and intimate exploration of the private lives of two Patrician Chinese families.
With twenty-five monochrome photographic plates, including a portrait frontispiece, reproduced from real photographs. Collated, complete.
Professor Soothill, Professor of Chinese at Oxford University, was the author's father.
Contains four pages of original publisher's advertisements to the rear of the work.
Condition
In the publisher's original orange cloth with gilt Chinese pagoda embroidery to the front board. Externally, very smart with slight shelf wear to spine and extremities. Fading to spine. Internally, firmly bound. Pages clean and bright with age toning. Spotting only to first and last few. Contains prior owner's bookplate to front paste down. Contains four pages of original publisher's advertisements to the rear of the work.
Very Good Indeed
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