Lot 198
China.- Sirén (Osvald) The Walls and Gates of Peking, one of 800 copies, John Lane the Bodley Head, 1924.
Hammer Price: £2,800
Description
China.- Sirén (Osvald) The Walls and Gates of Peking, one of 800 copies, this copy unnumbered, 128 photogravures on 109 leaves, 2 colour plates, folding plan of Peking, numerous illustrations, bookplate to front free endpaper, occasional finger-soiling, some spotting or light foxing, mainly to first few ff. and fore-edge, some faint damp-staining to plates towards end, original buckram-backed boards, bump to top-edge and corners, board extremities rather worn, remains of original dust-jacket (defective with loss), 4to, John Lane the Bodley Head, 1924.
Description
China.- Sirén (Osvald) The Walls and Gates of Peking, one of 800 copies, this copy unnumbered, 128 photogravures on 109 leaves, 2 colour plates, folding plan of Peking, numerous illustrations, bookplate to front free endpaper, occasional finger-soiling, some spotting or light foxing, mainly to first few ff. and fore-edge, some faint damp-staining to plates towards end, original buckram-backed boards, bump to top-edge and corners, board extremities rather worn, remains of original dust-jacket (defective with loss), 4to, John Lane the Bodley Head, 1924.
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