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Stanley Charles Nott. CHINESE JADES IN THE STANLEY CHARLES NOTT COLLECTION, BEING AN ILLUSTRATED AND DESCRIPTIVE RECORD... West Palm Beach, FL: The Norton Gallery and School of Art, 1942; printed by The Record Company, St. Augustine, Florida. Limited edition; no. 968 of 1000 copies. Gilt-lettered and textured green cloth-covered boards, with pictorial endpapers and all edges stained green; in scarce pictorial jacket. Thick 4to; XVI, 536pp. With an introduction by Dr. Lin Yutang, a forward by Dr. Chih Meng, color portrait frontispiece, facsimile signature to limitation page, as issued, and illustrated with (118) full page halftone plates from photographs and (123) line engravings from selected Chinese jades. Accompanied by promotional materials from The Chinese Culture Study Group of America in New York relating to the work of Stanley Charles Nott, the "international authority on Chinese jade."
12 3/8 x 9 1/2 in.
Sturdy boards with wear to extremities, areas of rubbing to gilt, and slight separation from text block at head; wear at gutter before half-title with occasional additional minor gutter wear; pages with subtle toning to margins and rare foxing; the scarce jacket with significant wear such as losses, taped repairs, toning, and grime. About very good/poor.
