Taketaro, Shinkai, and Nakagawa Tadayori

FIRST EDITION, LIMITED TO 300 COPIES, THIS BEING COPY NUMBER 37, 4to (295 x 235mm.), 16pp. (including preface and list of plates, all in English and Japanese), 200 numbered photographic plates (collotypes), including one double-page, some with glassine overlays, loose folding elevation and plan of the caves (slightly creased), all unbound (as issued), original buckram portfolio, cloth ties, hand numbered limitation label on inside of lower cover, printed label on upper cover, slight spotting to title, minor stains and slight wear to extremities of portfolio

Cheng Te-k'un Library, bookplate; Dr Cheng (1908-2001), was an archaeologist, scholar, and curator of the West China University Museum at Chengdu in Sichuan; unidentified purple ink stamp on upper cover

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