Author: ROREX, Robert A., and FONG, Wen (translators)
Title: Eighteen Songs of a Nomad Flute: The Story of Lady Wen-Chi -- a Fourteenth-Century Handscroll in the Metropolitan Museum of Art
Description: New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1974. Hardcover. Wide small 4to. Mustard cloth with black and red lettering and decorations, pictorial paper over boards slipcase. (Ca. 100pp). Numerous illustrations (some color, one foldout). Fine/very good. Faint slipcase wear only. A superb and tight first of this edition. Modern translation of this circa 8th-9th century poems about the life of the poet daughter of a well-known 3rd century AD scholar. .

Keywords: Poetry


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