The Chinese Drama from the Earliest Times until To-day: A Panoramic Study of the Art in China, Tracing Its Origin and Describing Its Actors. Concluding with Synopses of Thirty Chinese Plays

Shanghai: Kelly & Walsh, Limited, 1930. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good +. First edition, limited. 750 copies, this number 566. 4to, xxxi, (i), 177, (11) pp, including colored frontispiece and 115 plates, patterned endpapers. Errata slip bound-in at title page. Limited to 750 numbered copies, this being No. 581. Peacock-feather patterned covers over quarter cloth, gilt spine titles, matching endpapers. Cloth spine moderately soiled, corners bumped/ slightly worn. Covers still sharp, internals fine. A highly presentable copy, a handsome production. (Inventory #: 011886)