Chinese Houses and Gardens

Henry Inn

1940 Limited First Edition (#1356/2000). Fong Inn’s Limited, Honolulu
Quarto.  Gilt letters with gilt ideograms on the front without dust jacket.  Textured blue cloth.  Decorated endpapers.  Signed, numbered and with the author’s signature and red chop.  Approaching NEAR FINE condition.  The profuse glossy pages with their exceptional photography, diagrams, drawings highlight the book’s subject with genuine respect. More than half the book consists of high quality glossy pages that include the Empress Dowager’s Summer Palace in “Peiping”. xii, 140 pp. Over 90 pp. of plates from photographs and drawings by Henry Inn, plus 5 essays on Chinese domestic architecture and gardens, edited by Shao Chang Lee. Most of these buildings were later destroyed in the Sino-Japanese War and subsequent turmoil. Thus, they are a record of a way of life and its forms no longer existing. RARE.