 | - Book Title: China and Britain
- Author: Sir John T. Pratt
- ISBN: mw00111222333
- Publisher: Collins
- Year Published: c. 1944
- Our Price: £12.10 GBP ($24.08 USD)
- Description: Collins, undated but with a gift inscription dated '44. yellow cloth hardcover; no dust jacket: 127 pages: 11 plates in colour: 68 b/w illustrations. Synopsis: One hundred and six pages of Chinese history with particular emphasis on the connection between China and Britain and well supported by colour plates and black-and-white illustrations . Chapter headings as follows:- The navigators . The Botanists . China 's gifts to the West. Ancient China. China's civilisation. Philosophy and religion. The coloured plates include Ming Huang's Dream. The Emperor Ming Huang A. D. 685-2762 paying a visit to the palace in the Moon. Painted in the year 1446 by Ch'iu Ying. A group of court ladies fatigued by embroidering. Details from a handscroll, colour and ink on silk. Sung period 960 to 1279. From a study of Chinese paintings in the collection of Ada Small Moore by L. W. Hackney and Yau Chang-Foo 1940. The kingdom of China 1626. Coloured engraving by John Speede. The Emperor Ch'ien Lung approaching his tent in Tartary to receive Lord Macartney, the first British ambassador , 1793. Watercolour by W. Alexander 1767 to 1816. Two Chinese vases in Wedgwood style. Ch'ien Lung period. Each of the panels show one of the eight immortals of Taoist legend. A page from a Chinese vocabulary brought from China for Francis Douce by ' my worthy friend Mr W. Alexander '. A Chinese off the rank. Coloured aquatint from Thomas and William Daniel's picturesque voyage to India by the way of China ,1810. Two Chinese scenes. Watercolours by George Chinnery 1774 to 1852. The great tea clipper race of 1866. The Taeping and the Aerial off The Lizard sailing a dead heat from Foochow to the Thames. Coloured aquatint by Seitz Wandsbeck. 1867. The Chinese junk, Keying , off Gravesend, 1848. The first junk that ever rounded the Cape of Good Hope and appeared in British waters. Coloured engraving by Rock Brothers and Payne. The Burma Road. Oil painting by Frederick Mager Condition:corners and spine ends slightly bumped; a few minute marks to cover: gift inscription; end papers foxed and front fixed end paper damaged: slight separation between page 65 and facing coloured plate: overall clean, good, and collectable.
- Condition: Collectable- Acceptable
- Dustcover: No
- Binding: Hardback
- Type: Used Books
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