Author: DONALD MENNIE
Title: The Pageant of Peking. Comprising sixty-six Vandyck photogravures of Peking and environs. With an introduction by Putnam Weale
Description: A.S. Watson & Co. 1922. Original decorated silk binding. Third edition. First edition was published in 1920. Folio.nMennie was born in Scotland in 1875 or 76, and arrived in China in about 1899 to become eventually a director of A.S. Watson and Co. the pharmacy business that published the book. Much of his published work is in the pictorialist style " his photogravures being more art objects than documentary photographs, often with rich or soft browns and subtle tones. His subjects evoked a romantic vision of - antique China`. Includes photographs of famous views such as the Summer Palace, the Forbidden City, the Great Wall, and scenes of shopkeepers, merchants, travellers, monks etc. Cond./Kwaliteit: Goed.
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Title: The Pageant of Peking. Comprising sixty-six Vandyck photogravures of Peking and environs. With an introduction by Putnam Weale
Description: A.S. Watson & Co. 1922. Original decorated silk binding. Third edition. First edition was published in 1920. Folio.nMennie was born in Scotland in 1875 or 76, and arrived in China in about 1899 to become eventually a director of A.S. Watson and Co. the pharmacy business that published the book. Much of his published work is in the pictorialist style " his photogravures being more art objects than documentary photographs, often with rich or soft browns and subtle tones. His subjects evoked a romantic vision of - antique China`. Includes photographs of famous views such as the Summer Palace, the Forbidden City, the Great Wall, and scenes of shopkeepers, merchants, travellers, monks etc. Cond./Kwaliteit: Goed.
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Price: EUR 900.00 = appr. US$ 978.16 Seller: De Slegte
- Book number: 2451231
- Book number: 2451231
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