A Special Copy of Chiang Yee’s The Silent Traveller in London (1938)

Posted: August 1st, 2023 | No Comments »

An interesting couple of things about the London Library copy Chiang Yee’s The Silent Traveller in London (published by Country Life books in 1938 in the UK). At some point this copy has been rebound but, in a nice touch, the binders have taken some of the original cloth cover with the title and Chiang Yee’s name in Chinese calligraphy and added it to the front. The original inside cover pages decorated with Chiang’s sketches of London ducks and pigeons remains too.

This copy was presented to the Library in October 1940 by FA Kirkpatrick. I think this is the historian Frederick Alexander Kirkpatrick (1861-1953) author of a number of books specialising in nineteenth century history, South America and a history of the Spanish conquistadores.

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