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'Costumes De La Chine', a book written in English and French by Major George Henry Mason, with sixty colour engravings
depicting a wide variety of tradesmen, gentlemen, ladies, peasants, soldiers, beggars, entertainers and others, the front leaves comprising a preface and table of contents, printed in London, 1800, embossed red leather bound cover -- 13in. x 9in. (33cms x 24cms), (some water staining to back of album).
See Colour Plate 5.
depicting a wide variety of tradesmen, gentlemen, ladies, peasants, soldiers, beggars, entertainers and others, the front leaves comprising a preface and table of contents, printed in London, 1800, embossed red leather bound cover -- 13in. x 9in. (33cms x 24cms), (some water staining to back of album).
See Colour Plate 5.