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, ... together with a relation of the voyage undertaken on the occasion by His Majesty's ship the Lion, ... with notices of the several places where they stopped ... taken chiefly from the papers of his excellency the Earl of Macartney ...; Sir Erasmus Gower, ... by Sir George Staunton, Baronet, ... In three volumes, ...
Sir George Leonard Staunton (1737-1801)
Category
Books
Date
1797
Materials
Place of origin
England
Collection
Ham House, Surrey
NT 3042769
Summary
Bibliographic description
3 v., plates, table . maps . 8vo.. Not indigenous. Imperfect: plates volume only. Provenance: Bequeathed to the National Trust by Norman Norris (1917-1991). Pencil note on pastedown in Norris's hand, and loosely inserted slip of his notes, both identifying this as the Staunton plates volume. Binding: Eighteenth-century half calf binding; marbled paper over boards; both boards detached, part of spine wanting.
Makers and roles
Sir George Leonard Staunton (1737-1801)