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Alexander, William: Costume of China. Speedily will be published. Sketches from nature, made in China, in the year 1793, 1797
Collection Overview
Collection Description & Creator Information
- Scope and Contents
Broadside, folio (321 mm.); a few shallow tears along left-hand edge, evidence of having been previously tipped-in on right margin; a very good copy. Prospectus for the rare first edition, issued in four parts, 1797-1799, containing 48 colored engravings by Alexander, the junior draftsman on the Macartney Embassy to China. Full page contemporary manuscript "Curious Predictions 2" on verso, entirely about the predicted fall of Napoleon. This prospectus unrecorded.
- Arrangement
Arrangement follows the order of the original Excel inventory.
- General
Author: Alexander, William
London: G. Nicol.
Collection History
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Finding aid created via automated processes by Regine Heberlein, 2017.
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Open for research.
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Alexander, William: Costume of China. Speedily will be published. Sketches from nature, made in China, in the year 1793; Collection of Ephemera Relating to the Marketing of Books, RBD2, Rare Book Division, Department of Special Collections, Princeton University Library
- Location:
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Firestone LibraryOne Washington RoadPrinceton, NJ 08544, USA
- Storage Note:
- Firestone Library (ex): Box P-000071