In linen-covered folding portfolio with ties. Chez Antoine Bertier, 1670. Occasional early marginalia. 1872 Perny, Paul. The title in Chinese appears at top of the title-page, the whole of that page being printed in black and red and contained within a border of Chinese characters.
Some sections display quantities of large, beautiful ideograms.
Wilberforce Eames's copy, with his signature. Eames was a noted bibliogrpher and book collector, and a distinguished head of the New York Public Library. Recent cloth with leather spine label tooled and lettered in gilt. Paper is brittle and lower margins of last few leaves chipped. Chinese art treasures.