Robert K. Douglas — China

London, Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1887. Cloth. A second edition of this detailed study of China and Chinese culture, with a folding map. Second edition, revised. Illustrated with a frontispiece, six plates, numerous in-text images, and a colour folding map to the rear of the text. Collated complete. A detailed history of the Chinese Empire, with chapters on the government, marriage, education, food, dress, agriculture, medicine, music, architecture, drawing, names, the Chinese year, superstitions, and funeral rites. With commentary on religion and an added chapter on Christianity in China. Written by Sir Robert Kennaway Douglas, a British oriental scholar. In the original full cloth binding. Externally, smart with light rubbing to the extremities and the odd small split in the cloth to the board edges. Hinges just starting but firm with the front endpapers to page vi loosening. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright with minor age toning to the extremities. Light spotting to the plates. With school prize bookplate to the front pastedown. Good . Ill.: Not Stated. Good .