Illustrations of China and its people : a series of two hundred photographs, with letterpress descriptive of the places and people represented.
A four-volume photographic survey of China by Scottish photographer John Thomson, issued in London by Sampson Low in 1873 for British readers curious about Chinese places, trades and dress. The scanned pages here are plate backings carrying faint rectangular ghosts of the collotypes, giving clean cream leaves, ruled mounts and blocked one- and four-up layouts usable as backgrounds and framing grids.
