Journal of the proceedings of the late embassy to China
Subtitle: comprising a correct narrative of the public transactions of the embassy, of the voyage to and from China, and of the journey from the mouth of the Pei-Ho to the return to Canton : interspersed wih observations upon the face of the country, the polity, moral character, and manners of the Chinese nation : the whole illustrated by maps and drawings
By: By Henry Ellis, third commissioner of the embassy
Contributors: Abbot, Charles; Brownrigg, M.; Clark, J., fl. 1789-1830, engraver; Davison, Thomas, d. 1831, printer; John Murray (Firm)
Publisher: Printed for John Murray, Albemarle-Street
Published: 1817
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 526
Subjects: Description and travel; Foreign relations
Notes: Signatures: [A]⁴ B-3X⁴.

Errata: p. [1] at end.

Printer statement from t.p. verso and colophon.

Includes index.

Includes engraved frontispiece portrait of Lord Amherst, ambassador to the emperor of China, 3 maps (1 folded), seven hand-colored plates showing the emperor's summer palace near Tien-Sing, Anchorage at Tong-Chow, Temple of Quan-Yin Mun near Nankin and other views of  the Yangtze river and harbor cities. These and one map engraved by J. Clark after Charles Abbot (1 after M. Brownrigg).

Includes an "Appendix of Official Papers, chiefly translations from the Chinese, and an Itinerary corresponding with the text." Cf. preface.

Bound in paper-covered boards; label with brief title on spine; bookplate of Hunter Rodwell on front pastedown.