Views of Shanghai during the Great Snowfall of 1893 (Jubilee Year).

First and only edition. 12 collotype plates with printed captions on tissue-guards (1 tissue guard cropped, not affecting text). Oblong folio. Original flexible pictorial boards, printed decoration to inside covers lightly offset onto title and final blank, slightly rubbed, light creasing to lower margin, but overall still a very good copy. Title, [ii](text)ff. Shanghai, Hongkong, Yokohama, Kelly & Walsh, 

"The winter of 1892-3 will be long referred to as the most severe within the limits of Western memory in Shanghai; and as this year, 1893, is the Jubilee of these great Settlements, a pictorial representation of Shanghai in her winter dress will, we trust, be considered both timely and interesting." (A. E. M.). This publication was printed by Ogawa Kazumasa (1860-1929), the foremost publisher of collotype books in Tokyo. It is amongst the rarest photobooks about Shanghai.  

Stock Code: 253367