Alan Ayling Duncan Mackintosh Tung (3 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Brand New. 294 pages. 9.18x6.12x0.87 inches. In Stock.

Copy number '125' of an edition limited to 200 copies signed by Alan Ayling and Duncan Mackintosh. Printed by John & Rosalind Randle at Whittington Court on Columbian Press no. 1275, made in 1848. The type is 12 pt Caslon and the paper is English Hand Made from St Cuthbert's Mill, Wookey Hole. Bound by Hunter & Foulis Ltd in cloth supplied by Warner and Sons, endpapers specially marbled by The Compton Press, top edge gilt, printed paper label to spine. Quarto, 295 x 200, pp. [viii] 96, with calligraphy by Ch'eng Hsüan and seven illustrations by Fei Ch'eng Wu, including the frontispiece. A book in Near Fine condition, housed in an original Very Good blue paper covered board slipcase. Butcher, 9.

Cloth. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. Ch'eng Hsuan; Fei Ch'eng Wu (illustrator). First edition. An exceptionally lovely copy of this signed Limited Edition collection of Chinese verses, translated into English and illustrated throughout. Number one-hundred and twenty of two-hundred copies produced, signed by Alan Ayling and Duncan Mackintosh. Ayling rendered the poems into verso, from Mackintosh's English language translation.Illustrated throughout by Fei Ch'eng Wu, with Chinese calligraphy by Ch'eng Hsuan.A wonderful collection of Chinese poetry and verse, arranges into sections covering the T'ang Dynasty, Five Dynasties, Sung Dynasty, Southern Sung Dynasty, and the Ch'ing Dynasty.Beautifully bound in Chinese patterned cloth, and housed in the original slip case. In the publisher's original cloth binding, with paper covered slip case. Externally, fine. Slip case in excellent condition. Internally, firmly bound. Pages clean and bright. Fine. signed by author. book.