[CHINESE WOODCUTS, PEKING JUNG PAO CHAI], - SHIH CHU CHAI CHIEN P'U Fei An T'i.
1982. 1. [Chinese Woodcuts, Peking Jung Pao Chai] SHIH CHU CHAI CHIEN P'U Fei An T'i. Peking: Peking Jung Pao Chai, 1982 [3rd printing] of this set of four volumes (each 31 x 21.3 cm) of the "TEN BAMBOO HALL". This edition was first published in 1971. The TEN BAMBOO STUDIO, of course, dates back to the late Ming period in the 17th century and is one of the earliest classics of color woodlock printing in the world. Each of the four volumes is string-bound Chinese style with paper labels and all are enclosed in a clasped brocade-covered folding box. The hundreds (267) of color woodcut facsimiles are well printed, but in truth represent an aesthetic which is more self referential to the past work of the Peking Jung Pao Chai, the finest color printer in China in the twentieth century, than it is faithful to the technique or the spirit of the Ming original. Despite that, it is a remarkable and lovely work printed in gauffrage and colors. Fine, complete as issued:.
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