Peking the beautiful

Comprising seventy photographic studies of the celebrated monuments of China’s northern capital and its environs complete with descriptive and historical notes. By Herbert C. White, Art Director, Signs of the Times Publishing House, Shanghai. Introduction by Dr. Hu Shih, Celebrated Chinese scholar, philosopher, and leader of the Chinese Renaissance. Shanghai : The Commercial Press, 1927. Folio, 400 x 325 mm, pictorial embroidered silk over bevelled boards (slightly bowed), pp. [15]; 16 – 154; [1], illustrated with 71 tipped-in colour and sepia plates, decorative borders, initials and vignettes, housed in the original pictorial card box (edges rubbed, corners split). A magnificent production.