British Museum Press, London, 1995, 1^st.  ISBN 0-7141-1656-4.  Hard cover, 160 pages including Select Bibliography and Index.  Very good plus; light blue boards with gold lettering on spine, light sunning along top and bottom edges; binding sound with headbands.  Dust jacket with price intact shows a bit of edge and cover wear; short tear at lower rear fold repaired on verso.  Book interior clean and unmarked; 64 colour and 42 black & white illustrations.  ‘… looks at the ways in which travelling artists influenced early western attitudes towards distant lands, and examines how far the artist’s own vision of these places was a distorted one, affect by factors as diverse as changing artistic fashions, the demands of colonial propaganda and the frequent need to work from memory.’ (from front flap)