China, its costume, arts, manufactures, &c. / edited principally from the originals in the cabinet of the late M. Bertin, with observations, explanatory, historical, and literary, by M. Breton ; translated from the French ; in four volumes ; embellished with plates.

Author/creator Breton author.
Format Book
ManufactureLondon : Printed by Howlett and Brimmer, Frith Street, Soho, 1824.
Description4 volumes : illustrations (engravings, hand-colored) ; 17 cm (8vo)
Subjects

Other author/creatorBertin, Henri-Léonard-Jean-Baptiste, 1719-1792. https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJjCPyWTdrvD7VCGxJXjmd
Other author/creatorCardon, Antoine Alexandre, 1739-1822, engraver. https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJmdxbjB3Pc9J6wM8GXWXd
Other author/creatorFreschi, Andrea, 1774-1815, engraver.
Other author/creatorMilton, William, engraver. https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PCjMfjm7PYdcKQxfCTq7Vhb
Other author/creatorStockdale, John Joseph, 1770-1847, publisher. https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJfX4j8rCfBHYPDCpF9JjC
Other author/creatorHowlett and Brimmer, printer. https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39QH7JmpkPg4mjRwCXjGyV4Y6
Uniform titleChine en miniature. Tome 1-4. English
Spine title Costume and arts of China
Local noteJoyner Rare copy lacks v. 4.
General noteIllustrated with 80 hand-colored engraved plates by Antoine Cardon ("A. Cardon direxit"), Andrea Freschi ("A. Freschi sculpsit") or William Milton ("W. Milton sculpsit"); published by J.J. Stockdale ("I.I. Stockdale at Pall Mall"), with various dates in 1812.
General noteIllustrations from the French edition (Paris : Nepveu, 1811), which were in part based on illustrations in works by G.H. Mason (The costume of China and The punishment of China, London, 1800, 1808); see. Lipperheide (1896-1901 ed.), nos. 1524, 1520, 1522. The Mason illustrations are "after designs by the Cantonese artist Pu-Qúa"--Hiler, page 575. For description of the works by Mason, Bertin, and Breton, see China on paper: European and Chinese works from the late sixteenth to the early nineteenth century. Edited by Marcia Reed and Paolo Demattè (Los Angeles: Getty Research Institute, 2007), catalog nos. 12-14, pages 162-166.
General note"Manufactory of paper from bamboo ... Second process in paper-making ... Third process of paper-making": v. 2, p. 34-45 and plates [4-6].
General noteIn volumes 2 and 4 several plates are incorrectly inserted.
General noteBinding, publisher's, of quarter green cloth and yellow paper boards, with printed paper labels on spine.
Digital Bookplate Bookplate for Jack and Mary Spain
References Lipperheidesche Kostümbibliothek (2. Aufl.), Le24
Acquisitions source Joyner Rare copy gift of Jack and Mary Spain, 6/19/2024

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