[Travel & Exploration] [China] Alexander, William
[Travel & Exploration] [China] Alexander, William Picturesque Representations of the Dress and Manners of the Chinese...
London: Printed for James Goodwin by W. Lewis, no date (ca. 1829). 8vo. Illustrated with hand-colored frontispiece and hand-colored vignette title-page, as well as 48 hand-colored plates; plates variously watermarked, dated 1829. Contemporary red straight-grain morocco, stamped in blind and in gilt, front board detached but present, extremities rubbed, rear board scratched; all edges gilt; dampstaining to bottom corner of most leaves; scattered spotting to text and plates.
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[Travel & Exploration] [China] Alexander, William Picturesque Representations of the Dress and Manners of the Chinese...
London: Printed for James Goodwin by W. Lewis, no date (ca. 1829). 8vo. Illustrated with hand-colored frontispiece and hand-colored vignette title-page, as well as 48 hand-colored plates; plates variously watermarked, dated 1829. Contemporary red straight-grain morocco, stamped in blind and in gilt, front board detached but present, extremities rubbed, rear board scratched; all edges gilt; dampstaining to bottom corner of most leaves; scattered spotting to text and plates.