DEUX VOLUMES DE PHOTOGRAPHIES DE L'ARCHITECTURE DU PALAIS IMPERIAL DE PEKIN

TOKYO, 1906

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DEUX VOLUMES DE PHOTOGRAPHIES DE L'ARCHITECTURE DU PALAIS IMPERIAL DE PEKIN
TOKYO, 1906
Photographs of Palace Buildings of Peking compiled by The Imperial Museum of Tokyo collotyped from the negatives taken by K. Ogawa… with Explanatory Notes… [Shinkoku Pekin kojo shashincho], Tokyo: K. Ogawa, 1906. 2 vols., Limited Edition, no. 75 of 500 copies. 172 collotype plates from photographs by Ogawa, printed on card, captioned and numbered, of which 3 are folding. Text with two title-pages printed in red and black, English and Japanese. Encased in two decorative Chinese cloth-bound folios with brown silk flaps, each titled The Imperial City of Peking China on the front cover.
19 in. x 15 in. (48.3 cm. x 38 cm.) including folios.

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TWO VOLUMES OF PHOTOGRAPHS OF PALACE BUILDINGS OF PEKING
TOKYO, 1906

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Lot Essay

This work was commissioned by the Imperial University of Tokyo during the late Qing dynasty to investigate and record details of the construction, architecture and decorative features of buildings within the Forbidden City and Palace grounds. This was an unprecedented accomplishment, in a hitherto secret and private complex of buildings, by the photographer, publisher and pioneer of photo-mechanical printing in Japan, and who opened Japan’s first collotype printing studio.

See another copy (no. 448 of 500), which sold at Christie's South Kensington, 8 October 2014, lot 134.

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