YUZHI GENGZHI TU (IMPERICALLY COMMISSIONED ILLUSTRATIONS OF TILLING AND WEAVING)
QING DYNASTY, TWELTH YEAR OF GUANGXU PERIOD, 1886AD
清光绪十二年 上海點石齋《御製耕織圖》古籍 Shanghai, Dianshizhai Press, photolithographically printed with preface and 48 full-page illustrations, text in Chinese, originally two books (tilling and weaving) with later UK leather bound to one volume 
27cm x 15.8cm 
Private English collection 
This was in the collection of the British Museum, Department of Oriental Antiquities, with a compliment note reading: “With the Compliments of the Keeper/ Keng-chih T'u (Culture of Rice and Silk) Reprinting the K'ang-hsi edition of 1696, reduced in size.”The original Gengzhi Tu was compiled by Lou Shou during the Song Dynasty, around 1237 and contained 45 illustrations accompanied by poems. The 1696 edition by the court painter Jiao Bingzhen is known as the Yuzhi (Imperial) Gengzhi Tu to refer to Kangxi Emperor's commission of it at the Imperial printing press, and shows a strong European influence.