Chinese Opera and Painted Face. Revised Edition
Taipei, Me Ya Publications, 1978 (second, revised, edition)/ 1969.
Large quarto, [ii], 194, [56] pages with hundreds of colour illustrations of painted mask designs.
Flush-cut cord-bound cloth-covered wrappers; a fine copy in the original cloth-bound wrap-around case, secured by two plastic pegs (the cloth a little marked and sunned).
The 'most comprehensive collection [and examination] of Chinese opera texts and ... what is certainly the most complete set of opera masks, beautifully executed and reproduced'.
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