Scraps from a collector's note book: being notes on some Chinese painters of the present dynasty, with appendices on some old masters and art historians

Published by Leiden, Leipzig, New York, 1905

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9 3/4" x 6 1/2" pp. [4], 135, [1]. First edition, complete with 20 plates (one fold-out), and frontispiece. Book plate "From the Library of Professor Ernest F. Fenollosa at 'Kobinata,' Southern Alabama," also signed "Mary McNeil Fenollosa (Sidney McCall)" Brown boards, slightly rubbed at the edges; gilt stamping with fillets on the spine. Text is clean save for the occasional annotation on a half-dozen pages. Very good. Mary McNeil Fenollosa (1865-1954), publishing primarily under the pseudonym Sidney McCall, was a popular novelist and poet in the early decades of the twentieth century. She wed Ernest Fenollosa, renowned American expert on Japanese art and culture, after two failed marriages. Mary continued on to write 9 novels, multiple essays, and poems. (Encyclopedia of Alabama).

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Title
Scraps from a collector's note book: being notes on some Chinese painters of the present dynasty, with appendices on some old masters and art historians
Author
Hirth, Friedrich
Publisher
Leiden, Leipzig, New York
Publication year
1905
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Signed by Author(s)
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Hardcover
Edition
First Edition.
Item weight
1 pound
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Art, Asia, Japan

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