Edwards, St Julian Hugh (attributed to), and others?

4to (295 x 235mm.), 63 albumen prints (210 x 265mm., or the reverse), including 2 folding panoramas (one 3-plate, and one 2-plate), mounted on card, recto and verso, each captioned on the mount in ink in Chinese and German, contemporary black half roan over green cloth boards gilt, flat spine gilt, gilt edges, the 3-plate panorama with old repairs and slightly worn, some mounts strengthened at hinges, slight cockling to mounts

Bennett, T. History of Photography in China: Western Photographers 1861-1879 (Quaritch, 2010), pp.154-182

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A VERY GOOD ALBUM OF RARE PHOTOGRAPHS, including c.27 views of Amoy (Xiamen), c.27 of Gu Lan Yu (Gulangyu), 4 of Hai Zang (Haicang), one of Quanzhou, and one of Tong'an.

The final photograph in this album, showing a customs official in a boat also appears in an album in the Bibliothèque nationale de France which belonged to Imbault Huard. Many of the images in the Huard album, which contains views of Amoy and Formosa (Taiwan), have been identified as images by Edwards, who was one of the leading photographers in Amoy during this period. [With thanks to Terry Bennett for this information].

Edwards (1838-1903) was "Amoy's most significant nineteenth-century photographer... and was arguably the most colourful and controversial Western photographer in nineteenth-century China. A highly talented photographer, Edwards used his camera commercially in China for at least thirty-seven years... Edwards's photographic portfolio seems to be restricted to views and portraits in and around Amoy and Formosa (Taiwan, where he is thought to be the earliest recorded photographer). His work appeared in several publications, including the Far East magazine" (Bennett).