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
London
Collection
Felbrigg, Norfolk
NT 3226734
Summary
Bibliographic description
The second edition, corrected. 3v., plates : ill. (ports., maps) ; 4to. Imperfect: lacks plate volume. Provenance: Nineteenth-century engraved armorial bookplate (not in Franks) in both vols.: Henry P. Marsham, with motto Quod adest. Pencil note on front flyleaf of vol. 1: Hugh Gatty from Wyndham Ketton-Cremer Felbrigg January 17th 1938 [i.e. Robert Wyndham Ketton-Cremer (1906-1969)] and with further Marsham provenance note, and note by Gatty that the plate volume was bought separately from Whittaker, Oct. 1944. Binding: Nineteenth-century half brown morocco over boards, gilt fillets on front cover, gilt spine with five raised bands, lettered in gilt: Staunton's Embassy to China. Edges sprinkled red.
Makers and roles
Sir George Leonard Staunton (1737-1801)