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Chinese Color Prints From the Ten Bamboo Studio
With 24 Reproductions In Full-color Facsimiles Of Prints From The Masterpiece Of Chinese Color Printing From The Ming Period

by

Jan Tschichold

Hardcover. Folio. Mc-Graw Hill Book Comapny, New York. 1972. 56 pgs, followed by 24 plates. Parts adapted from the author's previous books of 1940, 1943, and 1947. Plates printed in Switzerland.

Slipcase lightly scuffed and worn. Issued in paper covered boards, paper cover label, slipcase. Spine covering of book is lacking. Book is free of ownership marks. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid.

A treatise on calligraphy and painting of the Ten Bamboo Studio, including discussion of Chinese writing and ink, seals, woodcuts and two-colour prints, and a great deal of general and technical information on the subject of Chinese prints. Twenty-four prints in full color, with notes and bibliographical descriptions.

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Book formats and corresponding sizes  
Name Abbreviations Leaves Pages Approximate cover size (width × height)  
inches cm  
folio 2º or fo 2 4 12 × 19 30.5 × 48  
quarto 4º or 4to 4 8 9½ × 12 24 × 30.5  
octavo 8º or 8vo 8 16 6 × 9 15 × 23  
duodecimo or twelvemo 12º or 12mo 12 24 5 × 7⅜ 12.5 × 19  
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quadragesimo-octavo or forty-eightmo 48º or 48mo 48 96 2½ × 4 6.5 × 10  
sexagesimo-quarto or sixty-fourmo 64º or 64mo 64 128 2 × 3 5 × 7.5  
 

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