Old Chinese porcelain and works of art in China : being description and illustrations of articles selected from an exhibition held in Shanghai, November, 1908 / by A.W. Bahr ; with frontispiece and 120 plates, 12 being in colour.
Abel William Bahr (1877 - 1959)
Category
Books
Date
1911
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
NT 3100797
Summary
Bibliographic description
[8], 160, [2] p., [1], CXX leaves of plates : ill. (12 col.) ; 27 cm. Manuscript note on p. 160: "This helmet is now at Anglesey / Abbey Cambridgeshire. / Fairhaven." [i.e. Huttleston Rogers Broughton, 1st Lord Fairhaven (1896-1966)]. Provenance: Chinese inscription on front free endpaper. Manuscript inscription on half-title: "To / His Excellency / Lu-yu-ling / His Imperial Chinese Majesty's Minister / to the Court of St. James / With best compliments / from the author / London 22/5/11 / [signed] A.W. Bahr" [i.e. to Lew Yuk Lin (1862-1942) from the author, Abel William Bahr (1877-1959)]. Twentieth-century armorial bookplate (small variant), signed Badeley 1930: ‘Urban Huttleston Rogers Lord Fairhaven’ [i.e.: Huttleston Rogers Broughton, 1st Lord Fairhaven (1896-1966)]. Binding: Twentieth-century full publisher's dark green cloth; gilt lettered upper board and spine (English and Chinese characters); gilt top edge.
Makers and roles
Abel William Bahr (1877 - 1959), author Frederick Edgar Wilkinson (1871 - 1950), author