SIR MARC AUREL STEIN (1862-1943) The Thousand Buddhas. Ancient Buddhist Paintings from the Cave-Temples of Tun-Huang on the Western Frontier of China Recovered and Described by Aurel Stein ... with an Introductory Essay by Laurence Binyon. London: Oxford University Press for Bernard Quaritch, 1921. 2 volumes, text: large 4° (398 x 305mm); atlas: 2° (635 x 515mm). Text: title with uncoloured vignette and bound letterpress, pencilled notes in Stein's hand on pp. 11 and 48, and 15 loose plates (11 coloured) numbered XXXIV-XLVIII. Atlas: loose as issued, title in red and black with coloured vignette, 33 plates (12 coloured), numbered I-XXXIII. (Title and the first five plates creased at margins.) Text: letterpress in original wrappers, the plates loose as issued in original envelope (upper cover of wrappers detached, various small tears to both wrappers and envelope). Atlas: unbound as issued within original half-cloth portfolio with letterpress label on upper board, cloth ties (soiled, ties defective). [ With :] SIR MARC AUREL STEIN 3pp. autograph notes [n.p.: n.d.]. 3pp., 8vo (237 x 150mm). Two sheets headed 'The Thousand Buddhas' noting the comments of 'LB' [?Laurence Binyon], the third listing archaeological sites and giving notes on their history. FIRST EDITION. WITH THREE PAGES OF MANUSCRIPT NOTES ON THE THOUSAND BUDDHAS . 'The paintings and drawings here reproduced are a selection from the mass of precious material discovered by Sir Aurel Stein, and brought away by him from "The Caves of the Thousand Buddhas" at Tun-huang' (p.1). The cache of drawings and paintings were found amongst a horde discovered during the restoration of one of the larger shrines and Stein induced the Daoist monk in charge of the project to let him have a large selection of scrolls, some of which are described and illustrated here.
SIR MARC AUREL STEIN (1862-1943) The Thousand Buddhas. Ancient Buddhist Paintings from the Cave-Temples of Tun-Huang on the Western Frontier of China Recovered and Described by Aurel Stein ... with an Introductory Essay by Laurence Binyon. London: Oxford University Press for Bernard Quaritch, 1921. 2 volumes, text: large 4° (398 x 305mm); atlas: 2° (635 x 515mm). Text: title with uncoloured vignette and bound letterpress, pencilled notes in Stein's hand on pp. 11 and 48, and 15 loose plates (11 coloured) numbered XXXIV-XLVIII. Atlas: loose as issued, title in red and black with coloured vignette, 33 plates (12 coloured), numbered I-XXXIII. (Title and the first five plates creased at margins.) Text: letterpress in original wrappers, the plates loose as issued in original envelope (upper cover of wrappers detached, various small tears to both wrappers and envelope). Atlas: unbound as issued within original half-cloth portfolio with letterpress label on upper board, cloth ties (soiled, ties defective). [ With :] SIR MARC AUREL STEIN 3pp. autograph notes [n.p.: n.d.]. 3pp., 8vo (237 x 150mm). Two sheets headed 'The Thousand Buddhas' noting the comments of 'LB' [?Laurence Binyon], the third listing archaeological sites and giving notes on their history. FIRST EDITION. WITH THREE PAGES OF MANUSCRIPT NOTES ON THE THOUSAND BUDDHAS . 'The paintings and drawings here reproduced are a selection from the mass of precious material discovered by Sir Aurel Stein, and brought away by him from "The Caves of the Thousand Buddhas" at Tun-huang' (p.1). The cache of drawings and paintings were found amongst a horde discovered during the restoration of one of the larger shrines and Stein induced the Daoist monk in charge of the project to let him have a large selection of scrolls, some of which are described and illustrated here.
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