12 •(CHINA) The Far East, A Monthly Journal Illustrated with Photographs. New Series, Volume 1, Nos. 1 & 2.
Edited by J.R. Black. Together, 2 bound volumes. With a total of 12 photographs, 6 in each issue. Albumen prints, 11 of the prints measuring 5 3/8 x8 inches (13.6x20.3 cm.), and the reverse, the portrait of Sir Thomas Francis Wade 4x2¾ inches (10.2x7 cm.), mounted recto only to the publication's pages, each with a printed caption on mount recto. Tall 4tos, marbled boards, with the original issues bound in; the second partially disbound, one leaf is detached; both are ex-library, with Essex Institute blind stamps in the margins and an Essex Institute, Special Library China label and "withdrawn" hand stamps on the front pastedowns.
Shanghai, 1876

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The photographs in Volume 1, Issue No. 1:

Hu-sing Ting--Chinese Tea-house, Shanghai City * Ch'en Hwang Meaou Hwa-Yuen--Garden Near the Ch'en Hwang Temple--Shanghai City * Ch'e Tsze--Chinese Wheelbarrow Conveyances * Merchant's Wife, Shanghai * Pu-Heai Lao--Itinerant Cobbler, Tung Kia Tu * T'eng-yi Teen--Basket-Chair and Matting-Shop, Shanghai Foreign Settlement.

The photographs in Vol. No. 2:

Sir Thomas Francis Wade, K.C.B. * The River Front, Shanghai; Looking South; From the P. & O.S.N. Co.'s Landing Stage * Hu-Jun-Chih Tsang-Chiang--A Chinese Colonel of Infantry * Yu-Lu--Lieut.-Governor of Nankin * Chinese Shops * Coolies Waiting for Employment.