1900 The Attache at Peking

Description

First Edition, Original Binding, Publishers' Original Binding, Scarce, Signed

The first edition of this scarce work. 

Inscribed by the author to the half title: "J. G. B. O. F. Mitford, from A.B.F M *** 14. 1900". 

Bertram Freeman-Miftord's account of his time travelling in China, with a focus on his time in Peking (which is now known as Beijing). The work provides historical insight into life in China in the nineteenth century, written as a series of letters and documenting the street scenes, politics, customs and general life. Freeman-Mitford was a British diplomat. 

In the publisher's original gilt cloth.