SPL Hand Coloured Rare Book Collection Featuring Norman R Bobins

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WRIGHT, Thomas.
China in a Series of Views....

"Allom copied Chinese drawings from Sir George Thomas Staunton's collection and also made use of amateur sketches made on the spot by Captain Stoddard of the Royal Navy... [et. al], who during the Opium War, depicted in watercolours many places in the interior of China new to Western eyes" (Löwendahl).

Published
London: Fisher, Son & Co., 1843.
References
Bobins 314.
Binding/Size
M=4to
Value
0-5000
Published
London: Fisher, Son & Co., 1843.
Ref
5196

4 vols in two, quarto, 128 steel-engraved views by Thomas Allom, original half calf and embossed cloth, gilt, morocco label to spine. MS ownership signature to title pages. The plates are in black & white, so they are not listed.