An account of a Chinese expedition against the 'Confederates', of a capitation of the Chinese population, and of a Chinese embassy to Japan, perhaps translated from an (unidentified) French text, c.1774-5

File

MS. Beckford c. 45

Held at the Weston Library

Leaves are in sewn section

With drawings, probably by Beckford:

(fols. 1v, 2, 17v) pen-and-ink drawings of (imaginary?) Japanese coins and an imperial Japanese barge, and decorative head and tail-pieces
(fol. 10v) part of a map, in pencil

Dates

17 Leaves

MS. Beckford c. 45

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