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Title: Written on Bamboo & Silk : The Beginnings of Chinese Books & Inscriptions
Description: Chicago, University of Chicago Press, (1962). orig.cloth, dustwrapper.. 23x15cm, xiv,233 pp. Dustwrapper tears & chips.. Some rubbing. VG. In a rubbed & tape-repaired dustwrapper. ¶ Contents : Records on bones and shells -- Inscriptions on metals and clay -- Engravings on stone and jade -- Documents on bamboo and wood -- Silk as writing material -- The quasi-paper and paper manuscripts -- Tools and vehicles of writing.

Keywords: Chinese Epigraphy, Ancient China, Inscriptions, Palaeography, Writing, Language, History, Books, East Asia

Price: US$ 57.00 Seller: Expatriate Bookshop of Denmark
- Book number: BOOKS022648I