16 beautiful,glossy plates with accompanying descriptions as well as a chronology of his life and a bibliography. This exhibit was held after Zhu Qizhan died at the age of 105,having lived through all the enormous changes of China in the 20th century. Temple Press reprint of the original 1899 edition which had illustrations done as line drawings. They were reworked,revised and colored by Rackham for this version. Previous owner's name in ink on front endpaper and very light foxing throughout.
All illustrations are present.
Book is clean and firmly bound. Dust jacket has worn edges and a scuff on the front and white spots where the color has lifted away on the rear. The story of boy and his horse. But this horse ended up winning the Hambletonian. A classic horse story.