Handwritten note on front endpaper. Lists price of the text, date and location of binding by Jeffries & Son, states that a copy of Paul's "Gaol Fever" is bound in.
An ink and water color illustration showing the approach of the Qianlong Emperor to the ceremony in which he and Lord Macartney would meet. Made in 1793 by William Alexander, one of the artists employed by the Macartney Embassy.