this is a hardback book minus dust jacket titled " eighteen capitals of china " by william edgar geil and published by constable and co in 1911 ! the book has 139 illustrations along with 429 pages . some of the contents include, the southern capitals including hangchow - foochow - canton - kweilin - kweiyang, the yangtze capitals and the yellow capitals ,and this is well illustrated .the book is in used condition with some age wear and browning along with a little page margin loss on a few of the index pages . the boards are faded with some age wear and some age wear to the spine ! the pages are nice and tight with a neat previous owners name on the first blank page .a scarce copy in nice used condition.