Chinese Ceremonial Paper: A Monograph Relating to the Fabrication of Paper and Tin Foil and the Use of Paper in Chinese Rites and Religious Ceremonies

Dard Hunter

Verlag: Mountain House Press, 1937

Beschreibung

79, [3] pp. (text) plus 9 photogravures (including frontispiece), 2 collotypes, and 50 tipped-in specimens, prints, etc.; 4to, quarter red leather, vellum tips, sides of persimmon juice-dyed Japanese paper with a design printed from an early Chinese woodblock of a five-clawed dragon; gilt spine title, original slipcase. The book, together with its slipcase, are housed in a modern red cloth-covered clamshell box with leather label and gilt title. Text paper is Japanese handmade "Shogun" heavyweight made from the mulberry tree's inner bark. "Chinese Ceremonial Paper" records some of the fruits of Dard Hunter's research on one aspect of paper use during his extended trip to Asia in 1935. The numerous paper specimens (several foldout) include "spirit papers" to be burned at the funeral for use by the deceased in the afterlife. "Much of this 'money' was a coarse bamboo paper, onto which was pasted a small piece of extremely thin tin foil. Further treatments included a coating of seaweed, which turned the silver-color of the foil to gold, and sometimes a woodcut design was overprinted" (Baker, By His Own Labor, p. 141). A complex production in tipping in and binding these often quite fragile specimens. Prospectus laid in. Number 67 of 125 copies; signed by Hunter on the limitation page. A lovely, very well-preserved copy of the book, usual occasional offsetting from some specimens; slipcase has mild fading to some edges and light wear to one; clamshell box is fine. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 4939

Bibliografische Details

Titel: Chinese Ceremonial Paper: A Monograph ...

Verlag: Mountain House Press

Erscheinungsdatum: 1937

Einband: Hardcover

Zustand: Fine

Signiert: Signed by Author(s)