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Baoweng Laoren: QUANTU JINGU QIGUAN. (Strange Sights New and Old, Illustrated). Shanghai, 1929. 1,1, 10, 34; 53; 45; 41; 46; 49; 37; 40 folded leaves, Chinese-style. 40 b/w reproductions of woodcut illustrations in volume one. 8 vols. 21x14 cm. Stitched, cloth case (some of the stitching coming loose, and volume book labels torn and missing).
GBP 75.00
Republican-period lithographic edition of 'Jingu Qiguan' which contains forty short stories - there is an illustration for each story - concerning curious events in the so-called 'huaben' tradition of vernacular literature, collected into this best-known and extremely popular 'anthology of anthologies'. In Chinese only.
Subjects: Illustrated Books Fiction
Available, as of: 03/07/2008
Was item 158 in printed List 140.
Record produced by Hanshan Tang Books, www.hanshan.com.
