The Last Great Empress of China

336pp. Green vinyl-covered boards; silver and white design on front and spine, silver titles on spine; silk page marker. Bumped spine head. Illustrated endpapers. Text block edges just starting to fox. Decorative endpapers, bookplate on front free endpaper; paper creased, else internally neat, clean, bright and tight. 8vo. Biography of Tzu Hsi the last great Empress of traditional China - vilified in the foreign press as a cunning, treacherous, sex-crazed despot, but who actually reformed China from a medieval to modern country - building railways, championing women's rights and abolishing medieval methods of torture.