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The Mustard Seed Garden Manual of Painting: A Facsimile of the 1887-1888 Shanghai Edition by Michael J. Hiscox

Originally published as Volume 2 of The Tao of Painting, this is the first English translation of the famous Chinese handbook, the "Chieh Tzu Yuan ...

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