Estimate: | £400 - £600 |
Hammer price: | £650 |
REFERENCE - Edgar GORER (1872-1915) & J. F. BLACKER ([dates unknown]). Chinese Porcelain and Hard Stones. Illustrated by Two Hundred and Fifty-Four Pages of Gems of Chinese Ceramic and Glyptic Art. London: Bernard Quaritch, 1911. 2 volumes, 4to (311 x 240mm). Half titles, titles and text in English and French, 254 coloured plates, 6 of which folding (some very light marginal browning to the text, but the plates unaffected). Original cream pictorial buckram gilt, top edges gilt, others uncut (some patches of light staining to the covers, the spines a little darkened, without the very scarce dust-jackets). FIRST EDITION. NUMBER 592 OF 1,000 COPIES. Cordier Bibliotheca Sinica III, 3860. (2)