First edition such. Numerous illustrations in the text. 8vo. Original decorated cloth-backed boards (slightly rubbed&shaken), pp. 78-79 misprinted, but overall still a good copy. [vi](title, intro, list of plates) 85pp. Shanghai, Kelly & Walsh, 1890.
“The object of every work should be to elevate. Keeping this end in view, and recognising clearly the fact that the Foreign community in Far Cathay requires no further elevation, we have aimed herein at raising the moral tone of our Celestial hosts. This little book is threfore hopefully recommended to those whose desire it is to ‘cultivate friendly relations with the Natives’” (Preface). This is the first illustrated edition of the ‘Lays of Far Cathay’ which had previously been published in the ‘Far East’, a Shanghai newspaper.
