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Title: Chinese Garden Architecture: A Collection of Photographs of Minor Chinese Buildings Author: Howard, Edwin L. Place: New York Publisher: Macmillan Date: 1931 Description: Foreword by Everett V. Meeks, Dean of the School of the Fine Arts, Yale University. Color frontispiece, signed by Edwin Howard dated '31. Illustrated with photographs. (4to) black and red cloth, gilt cover label lettered in black, illustrated pale green endpapers. First Edition. Signed by the author at the frontispiece, and additionally inscribed by him on the front free endpaper: "It is good to look at objects from strange lands that we may see in them the beauty which is common to our everyday surroundings. Edwin L. Howard." Lot Amendments Condition: Rubbed and bumped at edges, bits of cloth rubbed away to expose several small spots on fore edge of front board; light foxing to endpapers; else contents are fine; very good overall. Item number: 243784