Chinese Miniatures From the Life of a Chinese Lady, edited by Dr. Rudolf Payer Thurn, text in German, Folio, Illustrated in colour, original portfolio with heavy paper boards, not complete, 12 illustration plates and title page, the twelve colours prints approximately 22cm high x 28cm high? Condition Report: extensively losses and worn at spine and outside cornersthe prints with some light foxing stains and paper with creases mainly at the tops where stuck to mounting papercomprises twelve prints mounted on paper, depicting Chinese ladies in different daily activities. Those illustrations are said to have "come from the large collection of Chinese miniatures, which Emperor Franz acquired in 1826 from the English Consul General Watts for his private library''. Rudolf Payer-Thurn or Payer von Thurn, (1867-1932), German scholar, historian and librarian was director of the Vienna Trust Library, administrator of the Goethe Museum and vice-president of the Goethe Society of Vienna in the 1920s. Condition Report Disclaimer