I have here for sale four volumes of the landmark series entitled CHINA ITS HISTORY ART AND LITERATURE BY CAPTAIN F BRINKLEY, EDITOR OF THE JAPAN MAIL, AND SPECIAL JAPAN CORRESPONDENT OF THE TIMES. This is the Limited Library Edition of 500 copies for the United Kingdom - numbered 68. There are 73 plates, many of them in colour and nearly all tissue guarded, and a lovely fold out colour map.

I have for sale here Volumes IX, X, XI and XII of the series which are the four volumes that cover China. Separately on Ebay I also have volumes I-VIII which cover Japan only.

Vol IX - Keramic Art, Chinese Porcelain and Pottery; Early Wares of China; Wares of the Sung (960-1279) Dynasty; The Celadon; Sung and Yuan Wares; Porcelain decorated under the glaze; Porcelain decorated over the glaze; Monchromatic glazes; Polychromatic glazes; Chinese pottery; Chinese Porcelain in the West; Manufacturing Processes - 19 colour plates, all tissue guarded, 426 pages, 

Vol X - Administration, Finance, Foreign Trade and Intercourse, Early period; Preconventional period of foreign intercourse and trade - 19 plates, 273 pages

Vol XI - Propaganda and Chinese Religions, Conventional Period; Education, Literati, Secret Societies, and Rebellions; The Second War and the events preceding it - 19 plates, 285 pages

Vol XII - Canton and Peking at last; The Treaty and the Taipings; The Sequel of Conquest; China's Education; The Closing Episodes; Today - 292 pages, 16 plates and a fold out colour map

Bound in red linen hardboards, gilt decoration and lettering on the spines, all eight boards are firmly attached. 24 cm by 17 cm. Very good condition with no pages loose or  missing. Formerly owned by Bath Library and there are neat bookplates to this effect, with some unobtrusive blind stamps, and the white number 952 on the spines.

I have over 1000 items on Ebay on a wide range of subjects so please visit my shop to see if anything else takes your fancy.

Postage will be by Air Mail outside of UK. If you buy more than one item then the postage cost falls for the second and further items as I will put them into one parcel - so you save money. We wrap and post the parcels on Monday and Tuesday - therefore if you pay before midday on Tuesday we will get it in the postal sacks on Tuesday night, and if it is after that time then it will go into the postal service on the following Monday.