Contemporary half morocco gilt faded purple cloth; extremities rubbed and worn with marbled endpapers. Three original parts in one volume, folio, 18 hand-coloured lithographed plates of Chinese Life by Snow. Coloured plates in order: 1. Costermongers - Victoria St. Hong Kong. 2. A Funeral - Mode of Carrying the Coffin. 3. Musicians and Flag Bearers in advance of the Funeral. 4. Sketch from the Wall on the Morning After the Grand Attack. 5. The Game of Shuttlecock a-la-Chinoise, a novel mode of playing the old game. 6. Dinner Hour of a Chinese Family on board a Chop on the Canton River. 7. On the Wall, Canton. 8. A Group of Coolies at a portable Soup Kitchen. 9. Military Train Coolies going home. 10. Sketch of a Mandarin, Grand Stand Canton. 11. Astonishment of the Natives at Red Hair. 12. A Group of Coolies on the Road at Dinner. 13. Going to a Picnic, a mode of traveling a long journey in China. 14. The rival Caravans, the Desert of today. 15. A clean shave. 16. A slap on the back, more pleasant than it looks. 17. How this little Pig went to Market. 18. Ye civil force.