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Staunton, George, Sir, 1737-1801
Alexander, William, 1767-1816
Baker, B. (Benjamin), active 1766-1824
Barrow, John, Sir, 1764-1848
Bulmer, William, 1757-1830
Nicol, G. (George), 1740?-1828
Title
An authentic account of an embassy from the King of Great Britain to the Emperor of China : including cursory observations made, and information obtained, in travelling through that ancient empire, and a small part of Chinese Tartary : together with a relation of the voyage undertaken on the occasion by His Majesty's ship the Lion and the ship Hindostan, in the East India Company's service, to the Yellow Sea, and Gulf of Pekin, as well as of their return to Europe ...
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Volume 3
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London : Printed by W. Bulmer and Co. for G. Nicol, bookseller to His Majesty, Pall-Mall
Description
Binding: all vols. in tree calf tooled in gilt. Vols. 1-2 (text) have spine title "Macartney's / embassy / to China" on red labels, vol. nos. on red overlay on green labels; edges sprinkled blue. Vol. 3 (plates) has title "Macartney / embassy / plates" on black spine label; edges yellow; guard tissues; purple ribbon place marker. Vols. 1-2 have armorial bookplates of Sr. James Colquhoun of Luss Bart., v. 3 has that of James Beveridge Duncan of Damside
Engraved frontispiece port. of Qianlong, v. 1, after William Alexander, the expedition's draughtsman. Frontispiece of Earl Macartney, v. 2, after painting by T. Hickey. Engraved illustrative tail-pieces. Plates mostly after Alexander by various engravers. Maps by B. Baker after John Barrow's drawings
Vol. 2 has separate added title page, plate vol. does not
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Language English
Publication date 1797
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Internet Archive identifier: gri_33125008481562
https://archive.org/download/gri_33125008481562/gri_33125008481562.pdf

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