CLAUDEL, Paul. Knowledge of the East. - Lot 92

CLAUDEL, Paul. Knowledge of the East. An elegant and refined Chinese-style edition, edited by Victor Segalen, of the great collection of prose poems that Claudel composed in China. Beijing, Presses du Pei-T’ang for Georges Crès, 1914. 2 narrow in-4 volumes, with visible blue thread stitching in the Chinese style, beige paper covers, in a blue silk publisher’s slipcase with ivory fasteners. 226 pp. Two minor scuffs on the first volume; some marks on the slipcase. Third edition, adorned with 61 initial letters in red and black, published in Georges Crès’s Korean collection, under the direction of the writer and sinologist Victor Segalen. One of 570 numbered copies on pelure laid paper. In fine condition.