Author: ARNOLD, JOHN.
Title: Through Hong Kong with a Camera.
Description: Middlesbrough Eng.: Hood & Co., 1916.. Some Photographs of Picturesque Scenery and Other Views in Hong Kong. more than 100 b/w photogaphs.. Oblong quarto.19,5 x 25 cm. HARDCOVER: (Original col. illustrated string bound wrappers. VERY GOOD) ¶ EXTREMELY RARE (maybe the only copy for sale) AND SOUGHT AFTER. Arnold was a well-known photographer and author of several books on Hong Kong, Macao, and Canton. A passionate photographer and senior HMSBC employee, John Arnold (b.1880) compiled several other illustrated guidebooks including A Pictorial Handbook to Canton (1905), In and Around Canton (1910), Picturesque Hong Kong: a Handbook for Travellers (1911), and Through Hong Kong with a Camera (1916). A book of photographs by J Arnold, published in 1916 in Middlesbrough by the printers Hood & Co Ltd. Most of the pictures seem to have been taken 1900-1910. The J Arnold photographs were published in at least one other book, Picturesque Hong Kong (1910), which can be seen in the HKU Library here. Many of the photographs were used in both books

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