4to (21 x 14 cm). XVI pp. (including half-title), 183 pp, (1), 184-191 pp. Bound in handsome modern half brown morocco with gilt titles on spine. Half-title and title-page strengthened, otherwise an excellent and very well-preserved copy. With a handful of scholarly, penciled marginalia including alternative Chinese characters. Ownership inscription of Richard Henry Horne (1802-1884) on title-page (sometime collaborator with Charles Dickens on an article concerning the Chinese exhibit at Crystal Palace in 1851).