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Whittington Press, 1974. Book. Near Fine. hardback. Signed by Author(s). Limited Edition. hardback, 11 1/2" x 8", bound in floral cloth with paper title to spine, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt, printed on rough-trimmed hand-made paper in an edition limited to 200 copies of which this is numbered 125. Signed by both poet and translator on limitation page. A near fine tightly bound copy with a clean and unmarked text and house din a blue paper covered slipcase, illustrated throughout by Fei Ch'eng Wu with calligraphy by Ch'eng Hsuan, vii + 94pp.
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A Folding Screen : Selected Chinese Lyrics from T'ang to Mao Tse-Tung Hardcover - 1974
by Ayling, A. ; Mackintosh, D. ; T'Ung, Ping-Cheng ; Whittington Press
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- Title A Folding Screen : Selected Chinese Lyrics from T'ang to Mao Tse-Tung
- Author Ayling, A. ; Mackintosh, D. ; T'Ung, Ping-Cheng ; Whittington Press
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition Limited edition
- Pages vii, 94, [1] pp
- Publisher Whittington Press, Andoversford, first edition, 1974
- Date 1974
- ISBN 9780950215945
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A Folding Screen, selected Chinese Lyrics from T'ang to Mao Tse-Tung rendered into verse
by Ayling, Alan (translated by Duncan Mackintosh and T'Ung Ping-Cheng)
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A Folding Screen: Selected Chinese Lyrics from T'ang to Mao Tse-tung. LIMITED EDITION
by AYLING, Alan, Duncan MacKINTOSH, and T'ung PING-CHENG (trans)
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The Whittington Press, 1974. ~Full pictorial cloth with design of birds, beasts, and flowers to boards. Title label printed in blue to spine, very slightly marked. Very small (c. 1cm across) manufacturer's flaw or abrasion to cloth on spine. Folio (20.2 x 29.3cm). Top edges gilt, other edges deckled. Marbled endpapers by the Compton Press. With original deep blue paper covered slipcase in Near Fine condition, very minor crease near base. Title page printed in blue & black. Parallel English and Chinese texts, with Chinese calligraphy by Ch'eng Hsuan and English translations versified by Alan Ayling from translations by Duncan MacKintosh in collaboration with T'ung Ping-Cheng. Illustrated throughout by Fei Ch'eng Wu. Notes and index to rear. One of a limited edition of 200 copies printed by John & Rosalind Randle and Charles Lowndes at the Whittington Press, of which this is no. 100. Signed by both Alan Ayling and Duncan MacKintosh on colophon. Printed in Caslon type on Wookey…
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A Folding Screen: Selected Chinese Lyrics from T'ang to Mao Tse-Tung
by Ayling, Alan et al.
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Gloucestershire: The Whittington Press, 1974. Book. Illus. by Fei Ch'Eng Wu. Fine. Hardcover. Limited Edition. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Textured patterned cloth bearing a bird, dragon and animal design in blue, terracotta red, brown and black, with title in black on paper label on spine.The book is housed in blue card slipcase. Condition: Very good, with light sunning to paper label on spine. Binding sound. This book is no.124 of an edition of 200 copies printed on handmade paper from St.Cuthbert's Mill, Wookey Hole, and is signed on the colophon by Alan Ayling and Duncan Mackintosh. The book is also dedicated on the front endpaper to Elspeth Huxley from Duncan Mackintosh "To Elspeth with love from Biddy and Duncan, Christmas 1974" . 94pp. B/w illustrations by Fei Ch'Eng Wu. The slipcase is in good condition with some light shelfwear..
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