Journal of the proceedings of the late embassy to China; : comprising a correct narrative of the public transactions of the embassy, of the voyage to and from China, and of the journey from the mouth of Pei-ho to the return of Canton. Interspersed with observations upon the face of the country, the polity, moral character, and manners of the Chinese nation. The whole illustrated by maps and drawings. / By Henry Ellis, Third Commissioner of the Embassy.
Sir Henry Ellis (1788-1855)
Category
Books
Date
1817
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
NT 3082590
Summary
Bibliographic description
[3], iv-vii, [2], 2-526, [2] p., [11] plates (1 folding) ; 4to. Some plates hand-coloured. Some plates hand-coloured. Pencil notes and numbers on front free endpaper verso in various hands: "Coloured copy", "v/-/-", "C/-", "7094" and "43". Provenance: Nineteenth-century oval armorial (crest in a garter) bookplate, gilt on white vellum: motto: Vigilantibus [i.e. Acheson family]. Nineteenth-century armorial bookplate (Franks 18307) on front flyleaf: Charles Lilburn. Twentieth-century armorial bookplate (large variant), signed Badeley 1930: ‘Urban Huttleston Rogers Lord Fairhaven’ [i.e.: Huttleston Rogers Broughton, 1st Lord Fairhaven (1896-1966)]. Binding: Nineteenth-century full calf; double gilt fillet to form a border; recessed cords; gilt tooled spine; brown spine label: 'Ld.. Amehurst's embassy to China'; gilt rolled board edges and turn-ins; gilt textblock edges; marbled endpapers. Binder's ink stamp: Bound by J. Clarke.
Makers and roles
Sir Henry Ellis (1788-1855), author