The pageant of Peking : comprising sixty-six Vandyck photogravures of Peking and environs from photographs / by Donald Mennie with an introduction by Putnam Weale (Still Image)

The pageant of Peking : comprising sixty-six Vandyck photogravures of Peking and environs from photographs / by Donald Mennie with an introduction by Putnam Weale

Mennie, Donald

4, 40 p., 69 leaves of plates : chiefly ill. 39 cm

Donald Mennie (1875/1876 - 1941) was a Scottish businessman and amateur photographer who worked in early twentieth century China. His subjects evoked a romantic vision of "antique China", featuring dusty caravans, misty rural valleys, old palaces, and the Great Wall of China. Between 1914 and 1927 he published several books of his images, including The Pageant of Peking (1920), providing views of Beijing and its environs, printed folio size and bound in blue silk, Glimpses of China (1920 ?), China, North and South (1922), The Grandeur of the Gorges (1926), depicting scenes along the Yangtze River for which Mennie was proposed as a member of the Royal Geographic Society, and Pictures of Peking (after 1900).
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Descriptive letterpress on versos facing the plates

1920

Beijing (China) -- Description and travel

DS795 .M4 1922

DS795 .M4 1922

Shanghai : A.S. Watson,

Link to record in Primo

Second edition, 1921