CHINESE CEREMONIAL PAPER. A Monograph Relating to the Fabrication of Paper and Tin Foil and the Use of Paper in Chinese Rites and Religious Ceremonies

Book Description

Chillicothe: Mountain House Press, 1937. . 8 1/4 x 11 1/4. 3 leaves, 79, (3) pages, 15 leaves, plus a duplicate of one of the fold-out specimens. There are 49 rare original specimens of Chinese ceremonial paper dating from the 17th c., plus text photogravure and collotype illustrations, and prints in color from old Chinese wood blocks. Quarto red morocco, vellum tips, decorated paper boards by Peter Franck (stamp-signed on leather turn-in), in slipcase of citron linen covered in a silky brown handmade paper. Duschnes label rear pastedown. A fine copy. With prospectus, two typed notes signed to the original purchaser, and a sheet of Hunter's light-and-shade watermmark portrait stationery. No. 5 of 125 numbered and signed copies, this is one of about 50 copies in the more elaborate binding. Hunter printed side papers in gold and red inks on brown, persimmon juice-dyed Japanese paper; an old Chinese woodblock of a five-clawed dragon (used for ceiling decoration in the ImperialPalace in Peking) is superimposed on an overall "endless world" pattern in red. "The remaining copies have only the dragon design printed in gold on text? paper coated with India ink." Baker, By His Own Labor pp. 279-280. ...one of Hunter's most fascinating and rarest works...." Schlosser 38.

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