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KEMP, Emily Georgiana SKU: 18208 Barcode:
Stock No. 18208
Authors: Emily Georgiana, KEMP (1860-1939)
Written and illustrated with XXIV plates by R.G. Kemp, F.R.S.G.S.London: Chatto & Windus, 1910
First Edition. Crown 4to (10 x 7.5 ins); pp xv, 247, [1]; 24 plates, some in colour, after drawings by the author, including the frontispiece, and two figures in text. Folding coloured map opposite page 248 ("Central Asia"). Original pale blue cloth with bright golden figure to the front with black title lettering, gold lettering to spine, spine and outer areas of boards somewhat embrowned. Top edge gilt. Contemporary presentation inscription (dated Christmas 1910) to first free endpaper. A nice tight copy, internally really clean and fresh, plates and map in excellent, unfoxed, condition. A journey taken some year after the Boxer Rebellion whilst the political powers negotiated trade with the Chinese government. Emily Georgiana Kemp (1860–1939) was a British adventurer, artist and writer from a wealthy Baptist industrialist family, and one of the first students to at Somerville College, Oxford. She travelled widely in China, Korea, India, Central Asia and the Amazon, during which time she sketched and write about women's education, welfare, and their role in religion. She was friendly with the theologian Marcus Dods and fellow explorer Francis Younghusband.
