Wright's China with 124 plates by Thomas Allom
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Heading: (China)
Author: Wright, G[eorge] N[ewenham]
Title: China in a Series of Views, Displaying The Scenery, Architecture, and Social Habits of that Ancient Empire
Place Published: London
Publisher:Fisher, Son & Co.
Date Published: [c. 1843]
Description:
Author: Wright, G[eorge] N[ewenham]
Title: China in a Series of Views, Displaying The Scenery, Architecture, and Social Habits of that Ancient Empire
Place Published: London
Publisher:Fisher, Son & Co.
Date Published: [c. 1843]
Description:
4 volumes in 2. [iv], 72 (life of Kang-He), 96; 72; 68; 56 pp. Illustrated with 124 steel engraved plates from drawings by Thomas Allom, including 4 engraved title pages. (4to) 10½x8¼, contemporary full brown morocco, spine and covers gilt decorated, all edges gilt. First Edition.
Classic volumes featuring Thomas Allom's finely engraved plates of the scenery and people of China.
Condition
Wear and scuffing to bindings; front hinge of vol. 1 starting, tissue guard detached but present at front of vol. 1, scattered foxing occasionally affecting plates, interiors solid; very good.
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Wright's China with 124 plates by Thomas Allom
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