collotyped from the negatives taken by K. Ogawa⦠with explanatory notes⦠[Shinkoku Pekin kojo shashincho]. [With] Decoration of Palace Buildings of Peking with Eighty Plates [Pekin kyuden kenchiku soshoku].
Tokyo, K. Ogawa, 1906
The first complete photographic survey of the Forbidden City and adjacent palaces.
Commissioned by Imperial University of Tokyo during the Boxer Rebellion to investigate and record details of the construction, architecture and decorative features of buildings within the Forbidden City and Palace grounds. This was an unprecedented accomplishment in a hitherto secret and private complex of buildings. The photographs by the photographer, publisher and pioneer of photomechanical printing in Japan, who opened Japan's first collotype printing studio; the project was overseen by architectural scholar Ito Chuta (1867-1954) who was given unprecedented access to the palace.
Rare: only 2 copies of the first work and 3 copies only of the second work listed on COPAC.
First editions. limited to 500 and 1000 copies respectively. Rare deluxe issues in embroidered silk bindings. First work: 2 voumes, 172 colloptype plates from photographs by Ogawa, printed on card, captioned and numbered, of which 3 are folding panoramas. Text with two title-pages printed in red and black, English and Japanese). Second work: text in 2 parts, English and Japanese, title-pages in red and black. 81 plates, of which 20 are hand-coloured and tipped onto black card, 59 are line-drawn plates, some printed in colour, and 2 are folding maps printed in colours.With] Decoration of palace buildings of Peking with Eighty Plates [Pekin kyuden kenchiku soshoku]. Tokyo: K. Ogawa, 1906. Limited Edition, No.189 of 1000 copies. Printed text in 2 parts, English and Japanese, title-pages in red and black. 81 plates, of which 20 are hand-coloured and tipped onto black card, 59 are line-drawn plates, some printed in colour, and 2 are folding maps printed in colours. Together 3 volumes, folio, original embroidered silk portfolios, original protective wooden cases (these worn), a fine set.
Commissioned by Imperial University of Tokyo during the Boxer Rebellion to investigate and record details of the construction, architecture and decorative features of buildings within the Forbidden City and Palace grounds. This was an unprecedented accomplishment in a hitherto secret and private complex of buildings. The photographs by the photographer, publisher and pioneer of photomechanical printing in Japan, who opened Japan's first collotype printing studio; the project was overseen by architectural scholar Ito Chuta (1867-1954) who was given unprecedented access to the palace.
Rare: only 2 copies of the first work and 3 copies only of the second work listed on COPAC.
First editions. limited to 500 and 1000 copies respectively. Rare deluxe issues in embroidered silk bindings. First work: 2 voumes, 172 colloptype plates from photographs by Ogawa, printed on card, captioned and numbered, of which 3 are folding panoramas. Text with two title-pages printed in red and black, English and Japanese). Second work: text in 2 parts, English and Japanese, title-pages in red and black. 81 plates, of which 20 are hand-coloured and tipped onto black card, 59 are line-drawn plates, some printed in colour, and 2 are folding maps printed in colours.With] Decoration of palace buildings of Peking with Eighty Plates [Pekin kyuden kenchiku soshoku]. Tokyo: K. Ogawa, 1906. Limited Edition, No.189 of 1000 copies. Printed text in 2 parts, English and Japanese, title-pages in red and black. 81 plates, of which 20 are hand-coloured and tipped onto black card, 59 are line-drawn plates, some printed in colour, and 2 are folding maps printed in colours. Together 3 volumes, folio, original embroidered silk portfolios, original protective wooden cases (these worn), a fine set.
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