The Chinese empire illustrated : being a series of views from original sketches, displacing the scenery, architecture, social habits, &c., of that ancient and exclusice nation / by Thomas Allom, Esq. ; with historical and descriptive letter-press by the Rev. G.N. Wright, M.A. ; the work will also contain a succinct account of the history of China, a narrative of British connexion with that nation, the opium war of 1840, and full details of the causes and events of the late war.