[Rarebooks] fs: Graham. Chinese Gardens, 1938

[Back Creek Books]

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(No. 9415 )  Graham, Dorothy. CHINESE GARDENS: GARDENS OF THE CONTEMPORARY 
SCENE; AN ACCOUNT OF THEIR DESIGN AND SYMBOLISM.
New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1938. First printing, Original cloth, 
Octavo, xiv, 225 pages, color frontispiece, black & white plates. Near Fine, 
No dust jacket.
      A study of Han, T'ang, Sung, Ming, and Ch'ing gardening styles along 
with a look at 20th century examples in China. Illustrated throughout with 
photographs by the author. Includes a list of Chinese gardens and a 
bibliography. Bound in coarse red cloth over boards with gilt lettered black 
title blocks on spine and upper board. Slight rubs to extremities, pencilled 
ownership name and date along with a tipped in Chinese painting of magpie on 
front free endpaper.    $75.00
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