MASON, George Henry. The Costume of China, illustrated by Si...

MASON, George Henry. The Costume of China, illustrated by Sixty Engravings: with Explanations in English and French. By George Henry Mason, Esquire, Major of his Majesty's (late) 102d Regiment, 1st edition, London: Printed for W. Miller, 1800, English and French titles, prefaces, and description leaves, 60 hand-coloured engr. plates by [J.] Dadley after Pu-Qùa of Canton (plates dated 1799), ink ownership inscription to French title, some spotting, offsetting, and soiling, bookplate of Thomas Bell Lindsay Churchill to front pastedown, later half dark-maroon morocco over slate pebble-grained cloth, marbled endpapers, slipcase, folio. [ESTC T97026]. (With a copy of the publisher's original prospectus (bifolium) slipped into a rear pocket, bearing on the recto of the conjugate leaf a contemporary manuscript transcript of ''Critique on Major Mason's Costume of China... Monthly Review, December 1800''; together with a contemporary newspaper clipping of an advertisement for the publication.) Note: A portrait of George Henry Mason is to be offered in our sale of the 12th and 13th January 2027.

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