1900 The Attache at Peking

Description

Author's Presentation Copy, First Edition, Folding Maps, Publishers' Original Binding, Signed, Uncommon

An uncommon first edition, signed by the author.

Inscribed by the author 'to Isaac with love & all good wishes for xmas 1906' to the front free endpaper.

Illustrated with a folding map to the rear. Collated, complete.

Bertram Freeman-Miftord's account of his time travelling in China, with a focus on his time in Peking, 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. 

With sixteen pages of advertisements to the rear.

In a truly lovely example of the publisher's original cloth binding.