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16 plates of pictures accompanied by 16 plates of poems and prose, plus 1 preface by the Qianlong Emperor in woodblock print dated to February-March 1766, 1 undated postface by also in woodblock print by members of the Qianlong court, 1 handwritten postface dated to the 23rd year of the Daoguang era, 4th month (12th day or May 11, 1843). The prints were engraved by Jacques-Philippe Le Bas (1707-83), Jacques Aliamet (1726-88), Augustin de Saint-Aubin (1736-1807), Benoit Louis Prevost (1747-ca. 1804), Pierre Phillipe Choffard (1730-1809), Joseph Masquelier (1741-1811), François Denis Née (1732-1817), and Nicholas Delaunay (1739-92), under direction of and with modifications by the Secretary-Historiographer of the Academy of Painting, Charles-Nicholas Chochin fils (1715-90). The prints were engraved after drawings by Guiseppe Castiglione (Lang Shining, 1688-1766), an Italian Jesuit; Jean-Denis Attiret (Wang Zhicheng, 1702-1768), a French Jesuit; Ignatius Sichelbart (Ai Qimeng, 1707-1780), a Bohemian Jesuit; and Giovanni Damasceno (An Deyi, d. 1781), an Italian Augustinian. The engravings were made in Paris, France.