Description:
Oriental Ceramic Art - Collection of W.T. Walters, ed. limited to 500 copies, New York: Appleton, 1897, ten-volume set, with painted color plates, hardcover with fabric spine, ten sections in portfolio (viii, 429p, 116 color leaves of plates,) portrait, collated and complete, 22 1/2 x 17 in.
Estimate $4,000-6,000
Section 2 plate 22, p79, fly, and binding light water stain at bottom, section 4 guard sheet plate 34 pencil rotation, p. 137 tear lower right corner, section 7 plate 74 separating from tab lower left, p. 279 small chip edge, section 8 plate 85 separating from tab lower left, tear in guard sheet, plate 88.
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W.T. WaltersSuhyung Kim
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