Book Description Revised 3rd printing. Lavish elegant illustrated coffeetable examination of the glories of the Imperial China. Nice bright clean crisp copy flawed only by damaged endpapers. 9-1/4 x 11-1/2, 176 pp, index, chronology, b/w color photos almost every page, foldouts, faux marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. Hardcover in padded red stamped gilt silk boards w color photo inset, no jacket as issued. Christopher Hibbert Christopher Hibbert (born Arthur Raymond Hibbert) MC (5 March 1924 ? 21 December 2008), was an English writer, historian and biographer. He has been called "a pearl of biographers" (New Statesman) and "probably the most widely-read popular historian of our time and undoubtedly one of the most prolific" (The Times). Hibbert was a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and the author of many books, including The Story of England, Disraeli, Edward VII, George IV, The Rise and Fall of the House of Medici, and Cavaliers and Roundheads Bio from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia This beautifully illustrated book is silk embossed and gilted. See my other listings for more Treasures of the World books.