Picturesque representations of the dress and manners of the Chinese: illustrated in fifty coloured engravings, with descriptions / By William Alexander.
Accession number:
PML 150805
Published:
London : Printed for Thomas M'Lean, Haymarket, [1814]
Description:
52 unnumbered leaves : 50 color plates ; 24 cm
Credit:
Bequest of Julia P. Wightman, 1994.
Notes:
Added engraved title page (plate I): The costume of China, by W. Alexander.
Each plate followed by one blank leaf and one leaf of descriptive letterpress.
Engravings dated Jan. 1814 with imprint: J. Murray, Albemarle Street.
"List of the plates": 2nd unnumbered leaf.
Library's copy has printed paper title label mounted on blank endleaf: Costume of China. Fifty Coloured Engavings. Three guineas.
Binding:
Full red calf binding, triple ruled in gilt, spine tooled in gilt with green and brown leather labels lettered in gold, by Birdsall of Northampton.
Provenance:
From the library of Julia Wightman, with her bookplate.
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