Narrative of the Earl of Elgin's mission to China and Japan . in the years 1857, '58, '59 by Laurence Oliphant; with illustrations from original drawings & photographs.
Laurence Oliphant (1829-1888)
Category
Books
Date
1859
Materials
Place of origin
Scotland
Collection
Shugborough Estate, Staffordshire
NT 3083561
Summary
Bibliographic description
2 v., plates : ill. (some col.), fold. maps ; 23 cm. Bookseller’s ticket on pastedown: Bought of Willis and Sotheran, booksellers & bookbinders, 42, Charing Cross. Provenance: nineteenth-century crest bookplate, after 1831, with earl’s coronet: Lichfield [i.e. Thomas William Anson, 2nd Viscount Anson, created Earl of Lichfield, 1831 (1795-1854); and also used by subsequent earls]. Binding: nineteenth-century half calf; marbled paper over boards; gold tooled spine; red and green spine labels.
Makers and roles
Laurence Oliphant (1829-1888)