WHITE, Herbert C.

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Publisher's sample book for White's Peking the Beautiful. A rare brochure, traced at Harvard only, for White's monumental publication, including specimens of four plates, a description puffing the book, and an advertisement with a detachable order form.Sold for $2.00 by the publisher, this sample presents the colour plates of the Great Wall and the Summer Palace's colonnade, as well as two plates after photographs of Xihuang Temple and Yonghegong. The end advertisement cites reviews by Arthur de Carle Sowerby and Princess Der Ling.

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