OUTLINES OF CHINESE SYMBOLISM AND ART MOTIVES, ’An Alphabetical Compendium of Antique Legends and Beliefs, as Reflected in the Manners and Customs of the Chinese’, by C.A.S. Williams, ’Acting Commissioner in Charge of Maritime Customs Peiping , Vice-President and Professor of Customs College, Examiner of Mandarin for Hongkong University, Lecturer of Chiaotung University …’, published by Kelly & Walsh, Shanghai, China, 1932, Sections include, in small part, Amusements, Ancestor Worship, Chinese Architecture, Astrology, Astronomy, Charms, Chinaware, Coins, The Chinese Compass, Chinese Costume, Chinese Curios, The Chinese Dragon, Chinese Drama, The ’Eight Diagrams’, The Elixir of Life, Feng Shui, Chinese Flags, Chinese Gods (of Fire, Longevity, the Kitchen, of War, of Gold), the ’Hundred Antiques’, Jade, Jasmine, The Goddess Kuan Yin, Lamaism, The Chinese Lion, Marriage, Chinese Medicine, Opium, The Chinese Pagoda, the Chinese Phoenix, The ’Plant of Long Life’, Rice, Chinese Secret Societies, Chinese Shop Signs, Chinese Silk, Silver, Chinese Spiritualism, Chinese Tea, the Chinese Tiger, the ’Wish-granting-gem’, the Chinese Written Characters, Yin and Yang, and much more. Volume fantastically illustrated with material from a variety of old Chinese sources, with ILLUSTRATIONS that include, in part, (and I wish I could show more than just these few), Shou Shan - The Taoist Paradise as Frontispiece (a color print with transparent tissue overlay with explanatory key to the ’Eight Immortals’, Nan Chi Lao Jen - The Spirit of the South Pole, the Magicians Liu Ch’en, Fu Hsing, Lu Hsing, the Philosopher Ch’en Hsi, the Messengers of the Gods, and so on), Scene of Sacrificial Ploughing, The Alarm-staff of a Chinese Buddhist Priest, A Chinese Toy Peddler and Customers, (beautiful drawing) Chinese Dice and Playing Cards, Hsiang-Ch’I ’elephant checkers with board’, Kite Flying, Dragon Boat Festival, Worshipping before the Ancestral Shrine, Emperor Shih of the Chin Dynasty Designing the Great Wall of China with the Grand Secretary of State, Plan of a Chinese House, The Quarters of a Chinese House, The Forbidden City - Peking, Chinese Astrologer Crafting a Horoscope, Chinese Buddhist Battle-Axe, Cloud and Thunder Decorated Cauldron of the Shang Dynasty, Chou Chia Erh Chung - Eared Bronze Bell of the Chou Dynasty, Testing the Future Tastes of the One-Year Old Chinese Baby, Decorated Chinese Book Boxes, Shang Fu I Chueh - Sacrificial Wine Vessel of the Shang Dynasty, Prisoner and Canque, An Old Chinese Temple Rug, Old Chinese Taoist Calligraphic Nostrum for the Curing of All Diseases, A Lama Chisel Knife, Coins of the T’ang Dynasty, Provincial Coin of the K’ang Hsi Dynasty, Shape Diagrams of the Principal Chinese Coins, The Chinese Astrological Compass, The Duke of Chou ’Reputed Inventor of the Compass’, Emperor and Empress of the Third Dynasty, Yan Kuei Fei Dancing before the Emperor Yuan Tsung, Ancient Chinese Warriors in Combat, Official of the First Grade under the Manchu Regime, Empress Dowager Tzu Hsi, Men’s Clothing, Women’s Clothing, Women’s Adornments, (reproduction of a table of the) Five Complete Cycles of the 74^th, 75^th, 76^th, 77^th and 78^th Cycles, or 300 years of the Cycle of Sixty (beginning in the year 1744, in both English and Chinese, including the name of the Cycle, the Corresponding Element, Symbolic Animals, and so on), The Ch’u or Diamond Mace, Two Chinese Door Gods of the Civil Style, Chinese Door Gods of the Military Style, The Chinese Dragon, (two collections of several drawings of medals) Order of the Double Dragon as Conferred During the Manchu Dynasty (including those to be awarded to Foreign Ministers and Board Presidents, Members of Foreign Royal Families, Foreign Rulers, Foreign Attachés, Senior Militar Officers, and so on), The Dragon of the Clouds, The Dragon of the Sea, Chinese Actors of the Chinese Drama Huang Ho Lou, Table of the Pa Kua or ’Eight Diagrams’, Symbol the Eight Diagrams with the Yin and Yang of Creation, (drawings of the) Eight Immortals, (drawings of the) ’Eight Ordinary Symbols’, (18 drawings of the) Lohans, The Sacred White Elephant, (collection plate of) Chinese Fans, Chinese Lanterns, (paper charms) ’The Five Poisons, endowed with Protective and Exorcising Efficacy’, An Ancient Imperial Standard, (two beautiful color plates, various) Chinese Flags (including that of the President of China, Flag of High Executive Officials, Minister of the Navy, Admiral, Customs, Salt Administration, Water Police, Chinese Merchant Ships, Customs Ensign, National Flag, Flag of the Inspector of Customs, Postal Flag, and others), (drawings) The Four Heavenly Kings, Fu Hsi Inventing the Eight Diagrams, Chu Jung the God of Fire, The God of Longevity, The Kitchen God, Kuan Ti, (beautiful drawing) The Two Gods of Wealth - Civil and Military, The Money-Tree, Kuan Yin, Insignia and Weapons of the Lama Gods, Lama Devil-Dancers’ Masks, Wedding Procession a Peking, Body Drawing with Key to the Human Anatomical Chart, The Philosopher Mencius, Decorated Mirror of the T’ang Period, Table of the Chinese Months, No Cha, Landscape in the Style of Wang Wei, Landscape in the Style of Hsia Kuei, P’an Ku Chiseling Out the Universe, The Chinese Golden Pheasant, The Chinese Phoenix, The Taoist Philosopher who Discovered the Sacred Fungus of Immortality, The Taoist Queen of Heaven with Attendants, Chinese Seals, Seal of the First Emperor of the Ch’in Dynasty, Chinese Pawn Shop Sign, The Emperor Shun, The Three Star Gods, The Poet Su Tung-P’o, The ’Twenty-four Solar Terms’, Chinese Weapons (swords and daggers), Emperor Yu of the Hsia Dynasty, The T’ai Chi or ’Ultimate Principle of All Things” (Yin-Yang) symbol, The Three Pure Ones of the Taoist Trinity, The Pearly Emperor Yu Huang, The God of Thunder, Tien Mu - The Goddess of Lightening, Liu Kung - The God of Thunder, ’The Meeting of the Dragon and the Tiger’, Ti-Tsang - The Ruler of Hell, The ’Twelve Ornaments’, ’The Twelve Celestial Branches’, The Arch Field Mara, The Lord of Rain, The Spirit of the Yellow River, The Lama Wheel of Life, The ’Wish Granting Gem’, (four plates) Tortures of the Buddhist Hell, and much more. CONDITION : tall, handsomely bound, heavy 78 YEAR OLD VOLUME (measures approx. 10 by 6-½ inches) of 469 rich style pages including detailed index in its original, gold-lettered, ’Outlines of Chinese Symbolism … Williams, Kelly and Walsh’ publisher’s’ Yin-Yang and Chinese Trigram impress decorated hard covers, was not a library volume, has no bookplates, has no signatures, writing, notes or foxing to pages, remains strongly bound with all of its material, including all of its front and back end-pages and end-papers, and ALL of its illustrations, all present and perfectly intact. Volume is an immense treasurehouse of arcane Chinese material hardly ever found together in one place, for the China specialist and researcher, generally, and for the Kelly Walsh, Shanghai press collector, as well.