Shelfmark
Lkk.6.29
Title
Famous Chinese plays, / translated and edited by L.C. Arlington and Harold Acton ; illustrated.
Publication, distribution, etc.
Peiping : Henri Vetch, 1937.
Physical description
xxx, 443, [1] p., [24] leaves of plates : ill. ; 22 cm.
Language
In English; translated from Chinese.
Note
Includes music (transcribed by J. Hope-Johnstone)
Note
Title page printed in red and black.
Note
Publisher's blue cloth boards; covers and spine blocked in black.
Note
"Printed in China by the North-Chine Daily News, Shanghai"--t.p. verso.
Provenance
Signed copy, inscribed on half-title: "Harold Acton, long, long after my happy life in Peking! (1980)".
Provenance
Loose TLs to Neil Ritchie from the bookseller Ian McKelvie dated 4 June 1982 discussing the price of the book, in stamped franked envelope.
Binding
Clear plastic dust-jacket.
Copy-specific note
Typescript note, undated, concerning price of the book in 1991 and 1998.
Subject
Chinese drama Translations into English.
Added entry--name
Acton, Harold Mario Mitchell, 1904 - 1994 editor, translator.
Added entry--name
Arlington, L. C. (Lewis Charles), 1859 - ? (Lewis Charles), editor, translator.
Added entry--name
Ritchie, Neil former owner.
Added entry--name
North-China Daily News and Herald printer.
Added entry--name
French Bookstore (Beijing, China) publisher.
Added entry--place
China Beijing.
Added entry--place
China Shanghai.
Language code
eng chi
Identifier
B43408