Picturesque representations of the dress and manners of the Chinese. Illustrated in fifty coloured engravings, with descriptions (1814)
Alexander, William, 1767-1816 · London, Printed for John Murray by W. Bulmer · leaf 83
ving the breed., or by attention to their food, clean-liness, or regular exercise, to increase the size, strength,or spirit of the animal. A currycomb, or any substitutefor it, is unknown in China. Indeed horses are not muchin use. Wherever the nature of the country admits ofcanals or navigable… … PI «1 PLATE XIX. AN ITINERANT MUSICIAN. The Chinese have full as great a variety of musical instru-ments as most other nations, but they are all of themindifferent, and the music, if it may be so called, producedout of them, execrable. The merit of our travellingmusician consists in beating a sort…
Clothing and dress
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