In a fitted box. Cream cloth binding with black title plate, gilt title on the spine and all over black script writing.

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2 volumes. (24 unnumbered pages of plates); (24 unnumbered pages of plates). Bound in brown gilt decorated cloth with brown slipcase. Illustrated in colour with maps and plans. ‘A History of Chinese Civilisation’ was first published in France in 1972 by Librairie Armand Colin, Paris as a single volume under the title ‘Le Monde chinois’. It was first translated into English and publishedby Cambridge University Press in 1982. A second English edition was published by Cambridge
University Press in 1996. This Folio edition follows the text of the second English edition.