Miss Corner: THE HISTORY OF CHINA, PICTORIAL AND DESCRIPTIVE. From the Earliest Periodto the Present Time. London, n.d. (c.1845). Colour frontispiece.196 pp. text. 17 full page sepia tone plates plus numerous b/w engraved text vignettes. 24x16 cm. Half leather with marbled boards.

Discusses the first Opium War so post 1840. The full page plates have the feel of c. 1840

Numerous minor pencil doodles in margins. Wear and tear to plates. Wear to covers. Rare.