Première édition: [Illustrations of China and its people]. Londres: Samson Low, Marston, Low and Searle, 1873-1874. Première edition française: Paris: Hachette 1879.
Text chin., engl. - Prints for an exhibition in China and the UK drawn from the holdings of the London-based Wellcome Library, which had acquired John Thomsons’s then remaining glass plate negatives from 19th century China shortly after his death in 1921.
First published in London 1873-74 as Illustrations of China and its people by Sampson Low, Marston, Low and Searle. This is a much revised and edited edition.
First published in London 1873-74 as Illustrations of China and its people by Sampson Low, Marston, Low and Searle in four folio volumes. This is a revised and edited edition. - Nur Kurztitelaufnahme 10.2006.
with upwards of seventy illustrations, 14 p. of advertisements in back
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First edition 1875 (see Klukas 1984). Other ed.: 1878. The 1878 „second and revised edition“ states: „with an appendix by the late Henry Fox Talbot“ and includes Talbot’s last two photoglyphic (photogravure) engravings. This appendix is reprinted in Larry Schaaf: „Sun pictures catalogue twelve“, New York, Kraus 2003.