Shelfmark
Bl.3.07
Author
Title
A narrative of the British embassy to China, in the years 1792, 1793, and 1794; containing the various circumstances of the embassy, with accounts of customs and manners of the Chinese; and a description of the country, towns, cities, &c. &c. By Aeneas Anderson ...
Publication, distribution, etc.
London : Printed for J. Debrett, 1795.
Physical description
xxiv, 278, [26]p ; 4to.
Note
Written with the assistance of William Combe.
Note
Includes 'Appendix: containing an account of the transactions of the squadron during the absence of the embassy' and a 'glossary of Chinese words'.
Note
With a half-title.
Note
Half-title.
Note
Pencil note: "First edition £250".
Note
Final page = advertisement.
Citation/references note
Cordier 2386; Lust 497; ESTC T139455
Provenance
Given to Eton by Nicholas Kessler in 1996; Kessler bookplate.
Binding
?19th century half-leather (morocco) with buckram.
Subject
Subject
China Foreign relations Great Britain.
Subject
Great Britain Foreign relations China.
Subject
China Description and travel Early works to 1800.
Added entry--place
England London.
Identifier
B10618