CHINA: ITS STATE AND PROSPECTS, WITH ESPECIAL REFERENCE TO THE SPREAD OF THE GOSPEL : CONTAINING ALLUSIONS TO THE ANTIQUITY, EXTENT, POPULATION, CIVILIZATION, LITERATURE AND RELIGION OF THE CHINESE.

First Edition. Hardback. 8vo. xvi, 592pp. Vignette title page (pagoda) With 5 plates, including Baxter's frontis printed in oil colours, a foldout map of the Maritime Provinces of China, and in the appendix, a chronological table of Chinese history. Contents clean, though with edge stains to the title page and the slightly soiled frontis, and a small stain to the bottom margin continuing through the earlier part of the book. There is a small splash mark to the inner margins of pp2 38-239, and two corners have dog-ear creases. Map folds clean. Highly attractive De luxe binding: text block all edges gilt, bright, and with exquisite red silk endpapers, the pastedowns framed by broad gilt-decorated turn-ins. Firm, in the original bottle-green morocco, decorated front and back with gilt curlicues, the spine with raised bands and decorated compartments A very attractive copy. An early reader's pencilled appreciation on the last page has been left. [Contains more than one reference to the Chinese people's objections to westerners' hypocrisy in lecturing them on behaviour while conducting the opium trade.].…