SMITH, Arthur Henderson. Chinese Characteristics … Enlarged and Revised Edition with Marginal and New Illustrations. Tenth Thousand. Edinburgh and London, Oliphant, Anderson & Ferrier, [c. 1904].
8vo. Original green pictorial cloth; pp. 342, plates after photographs, vignettes in the text; name on title; otherwise a very good copy.
First published by North-China Herald in Shanghai in 1890, this updated version details life, society, customs and superstitions of the Chinese. Smith was an American missionary and author of books on China. This was his most widely read title.
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