Lan Ying painter: LAN TIANSHU FANG GU SHANSHUI CEYE SHI ZHEN: MINGREN HUACE. (Paintings by Famous Artists: Ten Landscape Paintings by Lan Ying Emulating the Past).

藍天叔仿古山水冊頁十幀:名人畫冊.

Shanghai, 1915.

1 page introductory text and 10 full page b/w colllotype plates. 26x37 cm. Paper.

Full page black-and-white collotype reproduction of an album of eight paintings plus two pages of calligraphy by the famous and highly-skilled Chinese Ming dynasty painter, Lan Ying. The paintings pay homage to Song and Yuan dynasty masters. In Chinese. An early Republic period publication, part of a much larger series produced by Wenming Shuju in Shanghai. Very scarce. Grubbiness and slight creasing to covers. Tear at top of back cover. Inside, generally clean.