[Rarebooks] FS: CHINA COAST PAINTINGS

[Norman Kane]

WE CAN OFFER:

BERRY-HILL, HENRY & SIDNEY.   CHINNERY AND CHINA COAST PAINTINGS.
Leigh-On-Sea:  F. Lewis,  (1970).  First edition.  One of 600 copies 
only.  Quarto, original
gold-stamped yellow cloth, nice copy in near fine pictorial dust 
wrapper.  Color fronts & 142 black and white illustrations, as 
listed.  (George Chinnery lived in the Orient for nearly 50 years; he died 
in  Macao about  1850. "By and large, all the paintings that originated on 
the China Coast during the 19th Century are decorative, colorful and 
typically illustrative of their period. Taken as a whole, they add an 
original chapter to 19th Century art history.") $85.00

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