Maggs Bros.

An exceedingly rare photographic album documenting the momentous Chinese Revolution (Xinhai Revolution) of 1911 which led to the fall of the Qing dynasty. The album opens with portraits of the newly appointed president Sun Yat-sen and short-term president Yuan Shikai, military leader of the powerful Beiyang army, who four years later proclaimed himself Emperor. The album proceeds to show battle scenes in Shanghai, Wuchang (where the revolution started on Oct. 10th 1911), Hankou, Nanjing, interspersed with graphic scenes of mutilated corpses. The work ends with a group of interesting images relating to the Chinese Red Cross Society. The half-tone photographic plates were printed by the famous Tokyo publisher Ogawa Isshin. Only one copy in OCLC (National Diet Library).