Chinese Shadows.(Child Songs)
Peking. The Pei Kuan Press. 1922. First Edition. Stock ID #222202 Scarce book of Chinese poetry: "Chinese Shadows" by Juliet Bredon, a self-published volume and probably her rarest China book. When referring to this item please quote stockid 222202.
2 full-page illustrations by different artists, 91pp, dark red cloth covered boards ruled and lettered in gilt, very faint foxing to the preliminaries, in the original dustwrapper, chipped with 4cm loss at tail of spine. A very good copy.
Bredon wrote a number of detailed volumes on China, all being much-wanted classics by the collectors of old China books. This volume is a collection of 55 translations of old Chinese songs, sketches, inscriptions and impressions.
A handwritten dedication to L. Montgomery on the front free endpaper fully signed Juliet Bredon Lauru. Peking 1930.
Price: $500.00 AU