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Estimate: $ 2,000 - $ 3,000
A "TOUR DE FORCE IN CHROMOLITHOGRAPHY" (ORIENTAL ART--CERAMICS.) Bushell, S. W. Oriental Ceramic Art illustrated by Examples from the Collection of W. T. Walters. 10 volumes. Portrait and 116 stunning chromolithographed plates by Louis Prang. Folio, 558x412 mm, contents loose as issued in original cloth-backed bright yellow pictorial board portfolios with green and red dragons on the covers; ex-library, with stamps, numbers, and bookplates, plates unmarked; volumes 1, 2, and 7 severely dampstained and defective, including plates; the unaffected volumes have minor mostly marginal foxing. A gorgeous set that must unfortunately be sold as is. New York: Appleton, 1897
'One of the most elaborate works founded on a single collection and issued before 1900. The reproductions are comparable to the very finest European work'---Bennett, American Nineteenth Century Color Plate Books, page 109; "Perhaps the greatest tour de force in chromolithography ever executed. Each plate required from twenty to fourty-four stones to print"--Reese, Nineteenth Century American Color Plate Books 103.
