Pictures Of The Chinese, Drawn By Themselves. Described by the Rev. R.H. Cobbold. Rector of Broseley, Salop, Late Archdeacon of Ningpo.

COBBOLD, Rev. R.H.:

Published by London, John Murray, 1860 1st

About this Item

Hardback, approx 8 x 5 inches. In banded and textured green cloth cover with gilt lettering to spine and decorations to ends, gilt figurative illustration to front and blind embossed design to rear. In very good condition. Original green cloth cover. Cloth split at top end of spine, small nicks at bottom end. Corners bumped. Small chip/hole to cloth on rear spine edge. Later endpapers (original endpapers removed.) Neat glue repairs to binding of first couple of pages. Some occasional handling/thumb marks to pages, some very minor light foxing to a couple of plates. Else a very good clean and tight copy. Scarce. iv + 219pp. (220pp.) Illustrated with 34 toned plates (numbered 1-30, includes 4 plates ?The Cookshop?, and frontis plate.) Many B&W woodcuts within text, including some full page, and one on very last page. (Scarce in original binding.).

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Pictures Of The Chinese, Drawn By Themselves. Described by the Rev. R.H. Cobbold. Rector of Broseley, Salop, Late Archdeacon of Ningpo.
• Publisher: London, John Murray, 1860 1st
• Seller catalogs:
  • FOREIGN TRAVEL::Far East