The Pageant of Peking. Comprising Sixty-six Vandyck Photogravures of Peking and Environs. With an Introduction

by Putnam Weale. Descriptive notes by S. Coulie by Donald Mennie

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First edition

First edition. Title and text printed in red and black. With 66 photogravures by Mennie, each tipped to larger sheets within a printed border with captions to the facing images on verso. 1 vols. Folio. Original blue silk. Spine perished, internally clean. very good. Item #352155 Sound copy of the first edition of the major work by photographer Donald Mennie 1875-1941 , a monumental work and an irreplaceable

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