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J.R. Black (editor) 
The Far East 
1876-1877 
  
Book binding 
Bjarne Tokerud Bookseller 
 
LL/41435 
  
Illustrated with 82 Albumen Photographs
[Photographs of China and Japan]. BLACK , J.R. ed. The Far East. A Monthly Journal, Illustrated with Photographs . Shanghai: 'Far East' Printing Office, 1876-1877. 2 Volumes. Quarto (26.5 x 22cm). 1st edition. New series. Volumes 1 & 2. iv +ii+152pp, with 43 original albumen photographs, and 1 illustration in the text (page 45); Iv + 138pp, with 39 original albumen photographs. Total: 82 tipped-in photographs (sizes ranging between 8.5 x 8cm and 20 x14 cm).
 
Volume One: original publisher's crimson half morocco, moiré cloth. Volume Two: full red morocco, each volume re-spined in period-style matching red calf, gilt. Front and rear boards of Volume One moiré cloth discoloured. Pages wavy from the mounted photographs. Over all a very good set indeed with the photographs in very good to fine condition, with good tonality. Approximately 55 images relate to China.
 
"It was in May 1870, that [Black] first conceived the idea of publishing a newspaper illustrated with photographs of the Far East." [From the Introduction]. The photographs provide a vivid insight into to the daily life and personalities in China, including:
 
buildings
shops
temples in Shanghai (Temple of Confucius)
images of beggars
itinerant cobblers
coolies
high-ranking Chinese officials (incl. the Governor of Nanking, and the famous statesman Li Hong-zhang)
a Shanghai merchant's wife
a small number of missionary and political figures (incl. Sir Thomas Wade, Samuel Wells Williams, Robert Hart, Medhurst, Sir Harry Parkes)
punishment of the Cangue (Hongkew Police Station)
Soochow
Sikawei
-bound feet of a Chinese woman
Foochow
two group photos of American Presbyterian Mission Conference at Shanghai
 
In addition, there are photographs of Japan, including: Nagasaki tea houses in Tokyo Japanese Buddhist priests
 
Gernsheim, Incunabula of British Photography: Bibliography of British Photographic Literature, 1839-75, and British Books Illustrated with Original Photographs, Item 635 
 

 
  
 
  
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