The costume of China : illustrated in forty-eight coloured engravings / by William Alexander.
1805
Linked e-resources
Linked Resource
Details
Title
The costume of China : illustrated in forty-eight coloured engravings / by William Alexander.
Published
London : William Miller, 1805.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (1 volume (unpaged)) : color illustrations, portraits.
Note
With added engraved pictorial title page, with dedication and imprint: "London. Published Nov. 1st 1804 by W. Miller Old Bond Street."
Includes list of subscribers (4 pages following title page); list of plates (called "Index") and publisher's advertisement for his "Costumes of Great Britain" at end.
Leaf of descriptive letterpress follows each plate; no guard sheets.
Plates unnumbered; with imprint of G. Nicol or W. Miller as publisher, W. Alexander as engraver, and dated from July 1797 to November 1804.
Plates also published in Bazin de Malpière's La Chine: moeurs, usages, costumes," 2 v., Paris, 1824-27.
Reproduction of the original from the Bryn Mawr College Library.
Includes list of subscribers (4 pages following title page); list of plates (called "Index") and publisher's advertisement for his "Costumes of Great Britain" at end.
Leaf of descriptive letterpress follows each plate; no guard sheets.
Plates unnumbered; with imprint of G. Nicol or W. Miller as publisher, W. Alexander as engraver, and dated from July 1797 to November 1804.
Plates also published in Bazin de Malpière's La Chine: moeurs, usages, costumes," 2 v., Paris, 1824-27.
Reproduction of the original from the Bryn Mawr College Library.
Access Note
Access limited to authorized
Series
Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Maps and Travel Literature.
Linked Resources
Record Appears in