THREE BOOKS ON CHINESE FURNITURE
Including Kates, George N. Chinese Household Furniture, New York and London: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1948, first edition, accompanied by 73 unbound sheets, with tipped in black and white photographs of illustrations from the Kates book, with a cloth folding case; Wang Shixiang, Connoisseurship of Chinese Furniture: Ming and Early Qing Dynasties, Chicago: Art Media Resources, Ltd., 1990, 2 volumes, original cloth, with printed and clothed slip cases; Wang Shixiang, Classic Chinese Furniture: Ming and Qing Dynasties, Chicago: Art Media Resources, Ltd., 1991, original cloth, with a printed dustjacket.
Footnotes:
中國家具書籍3冊
1948年 精裝初版英文《中國家具》
編著：喬治·凱兹（George Kates, 1895-1990）
1990年 精裝中英雙語《明式家具研究》1函2冊
編著：王世襄（1914-2009）
1991年 精裝英文《明式家具珍賞》
編著：王世襄（1914-2009）

The Kates book is offered with a set of plates that were likely used in the printing of the 1948 publication. With penciled captions of each on the reverse, several images are marked 'Omit' and were not included in the final publication of Kates' classic study of Chinese furniture.