A descriptive catalogue of the Chinese Collection now exhibiting at St. George's Place, Hyde Park Corner, London : with condensed accounts of the genius, government, history, literature, agriculture, arts, trade, manners, customs and social life of the people of the celestial empire
A visitor's catalogue by William B. Langdon for the Chinese Collection shown at St George's Place, Hyde Park Corner, London, in 1842, describing the exhibited objects alongside notes on Chinese government, trade and daily life for British sightseers. Wood engravings show the pagoda-fronted exhibition building, seated figures in a carved canopy, sedan chairs and street trades, useful for ornamental roof brackets, signboard lettering and costumed figure vignettes.
