Familiar Chinese Faces: A Selection of Figure Studies of Everyday Life from Photographs.
Familiar Chinese Faces: A Selection of Figure Studies of Everyday Life from Photographs. | Livres anciens et modernes | Carter (J. C.)
Livres anciens et modernes
Carter (J. C.)
Shanghai: McTavish & Co., Ltd. [c. 1915.],
Familiar Chinese Faces: A Selection of Figure Studies of Everyday Life from Photographs.
Familiar Chinese Faces: A Selection of Figure Studies of Everyday Life from Photographs. | Livres anciens et modernes | Carter (J. C.)
Livres anciens et modernes
Carter (J. C.)
Shanghai: McTavish & Co., Ltd. [c. 1915.],
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(Grantham,
Royaume-Uni)
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Détails
- Auteur
- Carter (J. C.)
- Éditeurs
- Shanghai: McTavish & Co., Ltd. [c. 1915.]
- Thème
- CHINA PHOTOGRAPHY RURAL SCENES CHINESE PEOPLE PHOTOGRAPHS TRAVEL, TRADESMEN TRADES COMMERECE
Description
Slim 4to (280 x 220 mm), 18ff. 24 sepia photogravures of working class people ( mostly tradesmen), all tipped onto rectos with letterpress beneath, images 150 x 100 mm and where two images to the page (110 x 80 mm), original decorative wrappers with spine tie. The trades people depicted include: Cottager weaving bamboo; Native sportsman; Woman shelling pea nuts; Harvesting rice; Blind fortune teller; Street Juggler; Open-air shave; Shoe mender; Taoist mendicant; Beggar; Wood engraver, etc. JISC locating a single copy at the SOAS Library.
