Title: The Pageant of Peking, comprising Sixty-Six Vandyck Photogravures of Peking and Environs from Photographs by Donald Mennie Author: Mennie, Donald Place: Shanghai Publisher: A.S. Watson Date: 1920 Description: Introduction by Putnam Weale. Illustrated with 66 tipped-in photogravure plates. 15x11, original decorated blue cloth lettered in gilt. One of 1000 copies. First Edition. Images include the Summer Palace, the Forbidden City, the Great Wall, and scenes of shopkeepers, merchants, travelers, etc. Lot Amendments Condition: Spine lacking, cloth lacking from rear boards, remaining cloth on front boards heavily worn; internally very good. Item number: 210644
Title: The Pageant of Peking, comprising Sixty-Six Vandyck Photogravures of Peking and Environs from Photographs by Donald Mennie Author: Mennie, Donald Place: Shanghai Publisher: A.S. Watson Date: 1920 Description: Introduction by Putnam Weale. Illustrated with 66 tipped-in photogravure plates. 15x11, original decorated blue cloth lettered in gilt. One of 1000 copies. First Edition. Images include the Summer Palace, the Forbidden City, the Great Wall, and scenes of shopkeepers, merchants, travelers, etc. Lot Amendments Condition: Spine lacking, cloth lacking from rear boards, remaining cloth on front boards heavily worn; internally very good. Item number: 210644
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