THE LATER CERAMIC WARES OF CHINA. Being the Blue and White, Famille Verte, Famille Rose, Monochromes, etc., of the K’Ang Hsi, Yung Cheng, Ch’ien Lung and other periods of the Ch’ing Dynasty

One of 25 Copies Only, The First Deluxe Edition, the Most Rare of the Issues, Copy XIV of 25 Numbered Copies, Printed on Japanese Vellum, Signed by the Author on the Limitation Page, and Bound in Full Vellum, With Six Plates in Colour not found in the trade or "ordinary" issue, and one additional to the 5 plates added to the Limited Issue of 250 copies. The additional plates are lettered A-F. A copy with fine provenance, the Baron van Eetvelde copy with his coat-of-arms as bookplate, and with an original order form for Important Books on Ceramics published by Ernest Benn. Profusely illustrated on coated pages with a colour frontispiece (Plate I) and 31 additional plates in colour following the text, a number are folding, each with printed tissue guard, 26 Plates Numbered I-XXVI and the 6 additional plates lettered A-F. Large Quarto in eights (288 x 228 mm), Japanese vellum, lettered in gilt on the spine, and with gilt pictorial decoration on the upper cover. xxix, 156 + 82 plates (76 plates numbered I - LXXVI and 6 plates numbered A - F). A very fine and beautifully preserved copy, the binding clean, tight and strong, the book remains as appealing as when it was published.