The Chinese Drama from the earliest times until today

A panoramic study of the art in China, tracing its origin and describing its actors (in both male and female roles); their costumes and make-ups, superstitions and stage slang: the accompanying music and musical instruments: concluding with synopses of thirty Chinese plays. Shanghai : Kelly and Walsh, 1930. Quarto, quarter cloth, lettered in gilt, over peacock designed papered boards, the design repeated on the endpapers, corners a little rubbed, spine slightly dulled, signed by Arlington on preliminary blank, errata slip, pp. xxxii; 177; [blank]; xxxiii – xlii, illustrated with over 100 colour plates, each being a stone lithograph prepared in Shanghai by Chinese artists under the supervision of Kelly & Walsh. Limited to 750 numbered copies signed by the author, a fine example..