A Chinese Barber. caption title

by China - Costume. Antique Print, George Henry Mason

A$50 · Offered by Asia Bookroom

The London Printing and Publishing Company Limited. (circa 1860). Engraving 26.7 x 20.6 cm (sheet), edges darkened, a few minor spots, but otherwise in very good condition. "[The itinerant barber]...shaves the head, cleans the ears, arranges the eyebrows; and following a custom, universally established in Asia, to animate the circulation..... More

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