John Murray. Good in Fair dust jacket. 1961. First Edition. Hardcover. Clean & tightly bound hardback book, endpapers foxed, with a bookplate on the front endpaper, in an unclipped dustjacket which has been laminated, is worn at edges, closed tears and minor loss at the top of the spine. viii + 294 pages, photos and illustrations on plates, notes, index. Exhibition leaflet for China Mania held at the Whitworth Gallery in 1978 laid in .

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Bookseller: Aucott & Thomas (GB)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 67699
Title: Chinoiserie: the vision of Cathay
Author: Honour, Hugh
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Good in Fair dust jacket
Edition: First Edition
Publisher: John Murray
Date Published: 1961
Keywords: Porcelain, China, Louis XVI, Furniture, Wallpapers
Bookseller catalogs: Antiques & collectibles;

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Fair: is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
Spine: The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
Edges: The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
Bookplate: Highly sought after by some collectors, a book plate is an inscribed or decorative device that identifies the owner, or former...
Foxed: Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
First Edition: In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
Jacket: Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...