First edition, first impression. xvi, 82pp, plus 120pp of monochrome plate illustrations, each with a captioned tissue guard. Blue cloth-covered boards with bevelled edges, gilt titles on the spine. Small folio. A few minor scuffs and marks on boards, with a minor indentation on the lower edge, Very slightly skewed. Some minoring toning to text block edges and a little foxing internally.
A Oswald Serin was a Scandinavian art historian and Keeper of Paintings and Sculpture at Nationalmuseum in Stockholm from 1928 to 1945, His monumental A History of Early Chinse Art was published in four volumes, the first being published in 1929. Each of the volumes is now very hard to find but the work remains one of the standard reference works on the topic. This volume. volume II, covers the Early Chinese Art from the time of the Han Dynasty (206 BC - 220 AD). An imposingly large volume.
