Hentze, C. - Les figurines de la ceramique funeraire. Matériaux pour l'étude des croyances et du folklore de la Chine ancienne. I. Texte; II. Planches. [TWO VOLUMES].

Hellerau bei Dresden, Avalun, & Leipzig, Karl W. Hiersemann, N.d. (ca. 1925). 1st Edition. Soft cover. Two volumes. Quarto. I. Text Volume. Pp. viii, 105. II. Plate Volume. consists of title leaf and 114 single-sheet collotype plates. Both volumes placed in the original cloth portfolio with some wear to extremities and a few repairs at folds inside. Both volumes are in fine condition, plates are exceptionally well preserved. ~ FIRST EDITION. Beautifully illustrated Collotype is one of the most accurate and attractive methods of photomechanical tonal printing processes. Highly skilled and expensive process, it cannot produce more than a limited number of impressions. It has been used for single-sheet prints and luxury portfolios, and since the 1950s has been abandoned by all except a few small specialist firms. X-8 .

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