The Life of Sir Harry Parkes, K.C.B., G.C.M.G. Sometime Her Majesty's Minister to China & Japan (2 volumes) by Lane-Poole, Stanley - 1894

London: Macmillan & Co, 1894. 1st. Original cloth. First Edition. Complete in 2 volumes. 8vo. xxvi, 512; xxi, 477, [2] pp. Frontispiece portrait with tissue guard; 3 fold-out maps; plan. Publisher's maroon cloth with gilt lettering; dark green endpapers. Minor wear to extremities; small mark on spine of Vol. II; else a fine set. The biography of Sir Harry Smith Parkes (1828 - 1885) GCMG KCB, a British diplomat who served as Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary and Consul General of the United Kingdom to the Empire of Japan from 1865 to 1883 and the Chinese Qing Empire from 1883 to 1885, and Minister to Korea in 1884. Parkes Street in Kowloon, Hong Kong, is named after him.