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hi
i have this 3 chinese books portfolios , in the first one there are 22 paper cuts inside in the second one 4 books and the 3 is opening like a scroll or a fan with a lot of prints or paintings and i wanted to know if someone can try and tell me what is written on the cover of the books .

thank you all very much

very nice. these look like woodblock prints published by Rongbaozhai first in the early 1950s and reprinted several times thereafter. the first is a collection of paintings by Qi Baishi, the second and third are woodblock printed sheets of stationary paper, the first with a titleslip inscribed by Qi Baishi again, the second reproducing a Ming period collection of woodblock prints from "Ten Bamboo Studio", its titleslip inscribed by Yu Fei'an, a painter who had a lovely calligraphy style that imitated that of the last Northern Song emperor Huizong.

But that's all I can surmise from the covers. You said you have papercuts, which seems wrong given the titles, perhaps someone has switched out the content?

hi
you are right , i have another smaller book with paper cuts inside it , this 3 books all contain prints , the first opens like a fan and the other two have this blue splashed gold portpolios inside them.

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