Yale Center for British Art

Creator:
Abel, Clarke, 1780-1826
Title:
Narrative of a journey in the interior of China, and of a voyage to and from that country, in the years 1816 and 1817 : containing an account of the most interesting transactions of Lord Amherst's Embassy to the Court of Pekin and observations on the countries which it visited / by Clarke Abel, M.D. F.R.S. F.L.S. and member of the Geological Society, Chief Medical Officer and naturalist to the Embassy ; illustrated by maps and other engravings.
Alternate Title(s):
Abel's travels in China
Published / Created:
London : Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, Paternoster-Row, 1819.

London : Printed by A. Strahan, Printers-Street, [1819]
Physical Description:
xvi, 420 pages, [23] leaves of plates ([4] folded) : illustrations, maps ; 28 cm
Holdings:
Unable to reach service. Holdings currently not available
Copyright Status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
Classification:
Books
Notes:
Spine title, on publisher's original printed label: Abel's travels in China.

Aquatint engravings by T.H. Fielding; after William Havell, Henry Raper, Clarke Abel, Sydenham Edwards, J. Edwards, and William Jackson Hooker. Engraving after A. Richard.

Plates dated Octr. 1st 1817.

Includes index.

"Errata," 1 page at end.

Abbey, J.R. Travel in aquatint and lithography, 1770-1860, 537

BAC: British Art Center copy is the Abbey copy. Bound in contemporary paper covered boards, with printed spine label. Cloth spine (rebacked?).

MED,HSL DS 819A: "Errata" inserted.
Subject Terms:
Abel, Clarke, 1780–1826 -- Travel -- Asia. | China -- Description and travel. | Amherst of Arracan, William Pitt Amherst, Earl, 1773–1857. | Southeast Asia -- Description and travel. | China -- Foreign relations -- Great Britain. | Great Britain -- Foreign relations -- China. | Voyages and travels.
Form/Genre:
Aquatints -- 1819. | Aquatints -- Hand-colored -- 1819. | Engravings -- 1819. | Stipple engravings -- 1819. | Travel literature.
Contributors:
Fielding, T. H. (Theodore Henry), 1781–1851, engraver. | Abel, Clarke, 1780–1826, illustrator. | Edwards, J. C., active 19th century. | Edwards, Sydenham, 1768–1819, engraver. | Havell, William, 1782–1857, illustrator. | Hooker, William Jackson, Sir, 1785–1865, illustrator. | Raper, Henry, 1799–1859, illustrator. | Richard, A., illustrator. | Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, publisher. | Strahan, Andrew, -1831, printer.