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(CHINA) The Far East, A Monthly Journal Illustrated with Photographs. New Series, Volume 1, Nos. 1 & 2. Edited by J.R. Black. Together, 2 bound volumes. With a total of 12 photographs, 6 in each issue. Albumen prints, 11 of the prints measuring 5 3/8x8 inches (13.6x20.3 cm.), and the reverse, the portrait of Sir Thomas Francis Wade 4x2 3/4 inches (10.2x7 cm.), mounted recto only to the publication's pages, each with a printed caption on mount recto. Tall 4tos, marbled boards, with the original issues bound in; the second partially disbound, one leaf is detached; both are ex-library, with Essex Institute blind stamps in the margins and an Essex Institute, Special Library China label and "withdrawn" hand stamps on the front pastedowns. Shanghai, 1876
The photographs in Volume 1, Issue No. 1: Hu-sing Ting--Chinese Tea-house, Shanghai City Ch'en Hwang Meaou Hwa-Yuen--Garden Near the Ch'en Hwang Temple--Shanghai City Ch'e Tsze--Chinese Wheelbarrow Conveyances Merchant's Wife, Shanghai Pu-Heai Lao--Itinerant Cobbler, Tung Kia Tu T'eng-yi Teen--Basket-Chair and Matting-Shop, Shanghai Foreign Settlement.
The photographs in Vol. No. 2: Sir Thomas Francis Wade, K.C.B. The River Front, Shanghai; Looking South; From the P. & O.S.N. Co.'s Landing Stage Hu-Jun-Chih Tsang-Chiang--A Chinese Colonel of Infantry Yu-Lu--Lieut.-Governor of Nankin Chinese Shops Coolies Waiting for Employment.
