Thomas Cook’s Handbook for Tourists to Peking, Tientsin, Shan-Hai-Kwan, Mukden, Dairen, Port Arthur and Keijyo, 1913

Thomas Cook’s Handbook for Tourists to Peking, Tientsin, Shan-Hai-Kwan, Mukden, Dairen, Port Arthur and Keijyo – that’s to say Beijing, Tianjin, Shanhaiguan, Shenyang, Dalian, Lushunkou and Seoul. This is a second edition with the original publisher’s yellow cloth boards, cover lettered in black within black frame, yellow advertising end papers, folding frontispiece map of railway and steam connections across East Asia and folding maps of Beijing and Seoul.

The second edition was published in 1913 in London and was revised and updated version of the first edition in 1911 and the end of the Qing and formation of the first Chinese Republic. They included the line, “It is seldom such momentous changes take place in a country within three years as have shaken the political, industrial and civil life of China since this book was first compiled.”