Rowe Lingstone (4 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Poor. 32 pp with chromolithographic illustrations by Leipziger Kunstdruck & Verl. Anstalt vorm. Franz Karrer, bound in quarter red cloth with illustrated paper to sides, decorative endpapers. Lacks backstrip, corners scuffed, covers rubbed , front board and endpapers detached , rear just held, binding loose with pages a little tanned, smells slightly of cigarette smoke, chromos remain bright.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Undated c1891, 1st Edition. Slim small 4to, unpaginated pp32 with chromolithographs to each page lithographed and printed by the Leipziger Kunstdruck & Verl Anstalt (Leipzig Art Print & Publishing Institution). Hardcover no dust jacket. Publishers binding of rebacked red leather spine over pictorial paper covered boards in good condition with some rubbing, scratches and marking to boards. Inside, with gold decorated end papers, all illustrated pages in good condition with some old smudges and fingermarks. A nice copy of this example of Victorian children's fiction which often promoted imperialism and Empire and the racial stereotypes of the times or as otherwise has been called "One of the most racially offensive children's books ever produced on the Chinese" Scarce.

First Edition, 4to, publisher's colour-lithographed boards, red cloth spine, gilt-patterned & embossed endpapers; pp. [30], printed on thick paper, each page fully illustrated in chromo-lithography, some heightened in gilt. A little shaken, covers slightly rubbed but a very good copy of this rarity. One of the most racially offensive children's books on the Chinese ever published, on the character, appearance, habits and manners of the people and the emperor. A salutary reminder of unequal treaties and treatment.

Gr.-8°. 16 Bll. Farbig illustr. Orig.-Halbleinwand (etwas fleckig u. beschabt). Selenes Kinderbuch mit prachtvoll illustrierten Chinaszenen, gedruckt in Deutschland bei Leipziger Kunstdruck- u. Verl. Anstalt. - Vgl. Wegehaupt II, 222 - Seebass II, 222 - Vortitel mit überstrichenem Namenszug, Innenfalz angebrochen und etwas gelockert, insgesamt gutes Exemplar. Schr-1-38 Sprache: Deutsch Gewicht in Gramm: 2000.