W.A.P. Martin - A Cycle of Cathay - 1896

MARTIN, W[illiam] A[lexander] P[arsons]. A Cycle of Cathay or China, South and North, with Personal Reminiscences. Edinburgh–London, Oliphant Anderson and Ferrier, 1896. In 8vo, 464 pp., bound in full red cloth, slightly later binding of Australian origin bound by Angus and Robertson in Sydney with their small laid-on label affixed in the inner lower corner of the first pastedown, a dragon, stamp of the Parliament Library of New South Wales and gilt title on the cover, gilt title on the spine slightly rubbed, frontispiece adorned with an engraving within a serpentine border, illustrations in black both in-text and out-of-text, good copy.