Author: MENNIE, DONALD. Weale, Putnam & Samuel Couling.
Title: The pageant of Peking. Comprising sixty-six Vandyck photogravures of Peking and environs from photographs by Donald Mennie. With a introduction by Putman Weale. Descriptive notes by S. Couling. [3rd edition].
Description: Shanghai, A.S. Watson & Co, 1922. 40 pp. 66 tipped-in photogr. plts , each with descriptive letterpress on versos facing the plates. Original blue silk covered boards with gilt titlesto spine and frond board. , bevelled edges. Folio. - Spine & edges seriously worn / dam. (some losses of the silk); bookplate on first free endpaper; foxing; title page with smal brown spot on the lower edge. * Large photogravures of Peking and surroundings after photographs by Donald Mennie. Printed and bound by Kelly & Walsh, Ltd, Shanghai. - First edition was published in 1920. - - Donald Mennie (9 March 1875 - 10 January 1944) was a Scottish businessman and amateur photographer who worked in early twentieth century China.

Keywords: Ethnography Asia China Photography Asia Fotografie / China Etnografie Azië Fotografie Azië Fotografie / China