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Picturesque representations of the dress and manners of the Chinese : Illustrated in fifty coloured engravings with descriptions / by William Alexander.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Singer-Mendenhall Collection GT1555 .A5 1825
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Alexander, William, 1767-1816.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Costume--China.
- Costume.
- China.
- China--Social life and customs.
- Manners and customs.
- Penn Provenance:
- Mendenhall, John C. (bookplate) (donor)
- Physical Description:
- 101 unnumbered pages, 46, that is, 50 leaves of plates : color illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- London : Printed for T. M'Lean by Howlett and Brimmer, [between 1820 and 1829?]
- Notes:
- Each plate accompanied by guard-sheet (not included in pagination) and page of description (text on recto only).
- Plate [50] numbered 46.
- "List of the plates."--p. [3] at beginning.
- Plates have imprint: "Pub. Jan. 1814, by J. Murray... ."
- Various plates watermarked 1823; various pages of text watermarked 1825.
- OCLC:
- 19375932
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