An Index of Early Chinese Painters and Paintings: T'ang, Sung, Yüan

Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1980. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (26cm); green cloth-covered boards with titling stamped in gilt on spine and front cover; x,391,[5]pp. This copy is from the library of noted poet, translator, and anthropologist Nathaniel Tarn (1928-2024), with his pictorial bookplate to front pastedown. A Near Fine copy. Incorporating the work of Osvald Sirén and Ellen Johnston Laing, this collection focuses on artists and anonymous paintings from the T'ang Period, the Sung Dynasty, and the Yüan period. [87314].