Picturesque representations of the dress and manners of the Chinese. Illustrated in fifty coloured engravings, with descriptions
A costume plate book of fifty hand-coloured engravings by William Alexander, draughtsman on the 1793 Macartney embassy, issued in London by John Murray in 1814 for British readers curious about China. Single figures and small groups stand on bare ground before thin landscape vignettes of pagodas and palms, drawn for dress detail: patterned silk robes, conical hats, pipes, poles, banners, cloth boots.
