The costume of China
Subtitle: illustrated in forty-eight coloured engravings
By: by William Alexander
Contributors: Malpière, D. B. de
Series: Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Maps and Travel Literature; Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Maps and Travel Literature
Publisher: William Miller
Published: 1805
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Subjects: Costume; History; Social life and customs; Pictorial works
Notes: With added engraved pictorial title page, with dedication and imprint: "London. Published Nov. 1st 1804 by W. Miller Old Bond Street."

Includes list of subscribers (4 pages following title page); list of plates (called "Index") and publisher's advertisement for his "Costumes of Great Britain" at end.

Leaf of descriptive letterpress follows each plate; no guard sheets.

Plates unnumbered; with imprint of G. Nicol or W. Miller as publisher, W. Alexander as engraver, and dated from July 1797 to November 1804.

Plates also published in Bazin de Malpière's La Chine: moeurs, usages, costumes," 2 v., Paris, 1824-27.

Reproduction of the original from the Bryn Mawr College Library.