CONSTANT, Samuel Victor. Calls, Sounds & Merchandise of the Peking Street Peddlers. With 25 wood engravings by Rosemary Covey. 4to. Newtown, PA: Bird & Bull Press. 1993
Half title, illus., wood engravings tipped in. Quarter red morcco on dec. blue silk. Number 27 of 200. A v.g. attractive copy.
¶With an extra woodcut of 'The Trained Mice Man' loosely inserted. The BL dates the first edition 1937, this is an informative, occasionally wry, compilation of Chinese street pedlars, accompanied by attractive wood engravings of great vitality by the American printmaker Rosemary Covey.
Stock #81997
£180
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