Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 November 1908 — COSTLY EDITION [ARTICLE]

COSTLY EDITION

Volume Valued at $1,850 Presented to Philadelphia Free Library. Reginald Heber Bishop’s superb work on “Investigations and Studies in Jade,” on which the author spent twenty years of labor. It cost $185,000 to publish the edition of only 100 copies. Two are used for copyright and the remaining ninety-eight will be placed in the libraries of Europe and America and presented to royalty. The Philadelphia Library owns copy No. 91. After printing the type was distributed and all materials used in the preparation of the work were destroyed. The library’s copy was presented on the express condition that it shall remain the property of the library in perpetuity. The first volume deals with the subject of. jade in great detail, covering 250 pages. It treats of, jade in China, giving its sources, value and colors; then jade as a mineral, with very elaborate descriptions and specimens, accompanied by analyses, reductions and notes, followed by detailed statements of methods of working jade, especially in China and New Zealand, concluding with descriptions of the prehis-toric-worked jide and the historicworked jade in China, India, Anam, Europe and New Zealand. Volume 2 consists of a descriptive catalogue of the articles now housed at the Metropolitan Museum. The collection has been arranged under three main headings—mineralogical, archaeological and aft objects. The volumes are bound in crushed levant, with handsome doubles of garnet watered silk, the backs being decorated with plain but very artistic gold tooling.—Philadelphia Record.