Illustrations of China and its people : a series of two hundred photographs, with letterpress descriptive of the places and people represented.
John Thomson's four-volume photographic survey of China, issued in London by Sampson Low in 1873 with descriptive letterpress, made for British readers curious about Chinese places, trades and dress. Albumen prints mounted several to a page show street vendors, sedan chairs, labourers, women in formal dress, temple courtyards and riverside architecture, useful for period costume, working tools and Qing-era building detail.
