CLAUDEL, PAUL. Connaissance de l'Est. 2 volumes. Printed in China in Chinese style on hand-made paper with the initial letters rubricated. 4to,

CLAUDEL, PAUL. Connaissance de l'Est. 2 volumes. Printed in China in Chinese style on hand-made paper with the initial letters rubricated. 4to, plain wrappers tied in blue string, bottom segment broken on Volume 1; housed in worn blue folding case lacking clasps, bookplate and owner's small mounted biography of Claudel mounted inside front cover (to which a later owner responded plainly in pencil below it: "idiot.") one of 630 numbered sets from the Collection Coréenne composée sous la direction de Victor Segalen à Péking. (Paris: Georges Crès, 1914)