An authentic account of an embassy from the King of Great Britain to the Emperor of China; . ... Together with a relation of the voyage undertaken on the occasion by His Majesty's ship the Lion, and the ship Hindostan, in the East India Company's service, ... Taken chiefly from the papers of His Excellency the Earl of Macartney, ... Sir Erasmus Gower, ... By Sir George Staunton, ... In two volumes, with engravings; beside a folio volume of plates.
Sir George Leonard Staunton (1737-1801)
Category
Books
Date
1798
Materials
Place of origin
England
Collection
Polesden Lacey, Surrey
NT 3153590.2
Summary
Bibliographic description
v.2., plates . ill.. (ports.., maps) . 4to. Imperfect: Polesden Lacy has plates vols. 1 and 2 only; ESTC lists a third vol. of plates. Provenance: Name written on p. [1] of vol. 1 and p. [1] of vol. 2 vertically across the text: “William Francis Arthur {Ba….y}. Note: Pencil writing on back of front endpaper of vol. 1: “6-16-0 China 7 copy 17/6 with atlas in boards”. Binding: Late eighteenth-century diced calf binding with gold-tooled spine; marbled endpapers.
Makers and roles
Sir George Leonard Staunton (1737-1801)