
Three Thousand Years of Chinese Painting, Yale University Press, 1997, HC, NF.
Xi, Yang, et al. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1997. English, Near Fine, HC, 4to, 12 1/4" x 9 1/4", [xiv] 402 pp. ISBN: 0300070136 Red cloth over board, stamped gilt lettering to spine, superior copy inside and out, with only the most minimal, unobtrusive wear to bindings, text-block, dust jacket and endpapers. Very Good white pictorial dust jacket, featuring wrap around of Zhao Mengfu's 1296 handscroll "Mounted Official," black, red, and white lettering to front, back, spine, and interior flaps, some wear to edges, tips, head, and tail, light soiling to spine and back panel, black pen writing to back panel, otherwise, clean and intact. Protected in a paper-backed Mylar-sleeve. [xiv] 402 pp., replete with full-color images. Includes Chronology and Reign Periods, Map of China, seven sections: "Approaches to Chinese Painting" with Part 1 & 2, "The Origins of Chinese Painting (Paleolithic Period to Tang Dynasty)," "The Five Dynasties and the Song Period (907-1279)," "The Yuan Dyn