RAS-1981 — Page 224

RASHKB Journal 皇家亞洲學會香港分會學刊 All AI Reviewed

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does give a clearer idea of the topography and social life of Hong Kong in the period 1840–1890, than any other pictorial publication on Hong Kong so far produced. (However, John Warner's other excellent books of photographs of old Hong Kong do complement these works of the engraver. And sometimes the sharpness of line achieved in the engraving or lithograph does give a life to pictures of the past. How often do old photographs of Hong Kong seem like eroded headstones, flat, and serving only as faded memorials to the dead?)

Whilst I thoroughly recommend this book, perhaps I should warn the collector that this collection of the I.L.N. engravings does not completely exhaust the total coverage of Hong Kong in that extremely vivid medium.

Alan Birch

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210 BOOK REVIEWS does give a clearer idea of the topography and social life of Hong Kong in the period 1840–1890, than any other pictorial publication on Hong Kong so far produced. (However, John Warner's other excellent books of photographs of old Hong Kong do complement these works of the engraver. And sometimes the sharpness of line achieved in the engraving or lithograph does give a life to pictures of the past. How often do old photographs of Hong Kong seem like eroded headstones, flat, and serving only as faded memorials to the dead?) Whilst I thoroughly recommend this book, perhaps I should warn the collector that this collection of the I.L.N. engravings does not completely exhaust the total coverage of Hong Kong in that extremely vivid medium. Alan Birch

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210 BOOK REVIEWS does give a clearer idea of the topography and social life of Hong Kong in the period 1840–1890, than any other pictorial publication on Hong Kong so far produced. (However, John Warner's other excellent books of photographs of old Hong Kong do complement these works of the engraver. And sometimes the sharpness of line achieved in the en- graving or lithograph does give a life to pictures of the past. How often do old photographs of Hong Kong seem like eroded headstones, flat, and serving only as faded memorials to the dead?) Whilst I thoroughly recommend this book, perhaps I should warn the collector that this collection of the I.L.N. engravings does not completely exhaust the total coverage of Hong Kong in that extremely vivid medium. Alan Birch

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does give a clearer idea of the topography and social life of Hong Kong in the period 1840–1890, than any other pictorial publication on Hong Kong so far produced. (However, John Warner's other excellent books of photographs of old Hong Kong do complement these works of the engraver. And sometimes the sharpness of line achieved in the en- graving or lithograph does give a life to pictures of the past. How often do old photographs of Hong Kong seem like eroded headstones, flat, and serving only as faded memorials to the dead?)

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