A Narrative of an exploratory visit to each of the Consular Cities of China, and to the Islands of Hong Kong and Chusan, in behalf of the Church Missionary Society, in the years 1844, 1845, 1846.

London: Seeley, Burnside, & Seeley; Hatchard & Son; J. Nisbet, & Co., 1847. Second edition (first London edition). Octavo (8 3/8" x 5 1/4", 214mm x 145mm). With 12 lithographic plates, lacking the map of China. Bound in green half morocco over marbled paper boards. On the spine, 5 raised bands. Title and author gilt to the second panel. Marbled endpapers and all edges of the text block marbled. Diamond book-label of Wm. Payne, completed in ink with no. 43, the motto within a garter: "of making many books there is no end." Extremities and hinges rubbed. Light foxing throughout, especially at the verso of the plates. Plate of Chinese Gamblers detached. Rev. George Smith (1815-1871) was born in England, educated at Oxford, and appointed Vicar of Goole in Yorkshire in 1841. He joined the Church Missionary Society and sailed to China in 1849 with Thomas McClatchie, becoming the first members of the Society to travel there. Rev. Smith later became the first English Bishop of Hong Kong. William Harold Payne (1836-1907) taught in Michigan from 1858-1887. In 1879, Payne became the first professor of the Science and Art of Teaching at University of Michigan, and became the first Chair of Pedagogy in the United States. …