Chinese pictures : notes on photographs made in China
A travel book of photographs taken in China by Isabella Bird and published by Cassell in London and New York in 1900, with short notes explaining each plate for British and American general readers. The halftone views show walled city gates with tiled upper storeys, temple facades, stepped stone lanes between thatched and timber houses, and rooftop panoramas, offering designers period architectural detail, street-level figures, and soft grey tonal ranges typical of early photographic reproduction.
