Connaissance de l'Est
Paris - Georges Crès et Cie, (Presses du Pei-T’ang) - 1914
- Format : In-8.
- Number of volumes : 2 tomes.
- Binding : Paperback.
- Collation : Tome 1: 108 pp. Tome 2: 109 à 226 pp.
Under case covered with a fuchsia silk fabric with Chinese gold motifs. Closure with cords and bone clasps. Printing on double folded pages, sewn according to Chinese tradition in two volumes in a flap cardboard box. Illustrated with 61 letters in red and black.
LIMITED EDITION OF 630 NUMBERED COPIES OF THE SECOND TITLE OF THE KOREAN COLLECTION. This one of the 30 head copies on Grand papier de Tribut, followed by 30 copies on Vergé nacré and 570 copies on Vergé pelure.
As soon as he arrived in China in 1909, Victor Segalen introduced himself to Paul Claudel, Consul of France in China. Paul Claudel's text had appeared in 1900 in Le Mercure de France, where a second enlarged edition had been published in 1907. It was in August 1913 that Claudel gave Segalen, whom he had met in Beijing, permission to reprint the collection in this beautiful collection.
Perfect condition, extremely rare in head draft.
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