Hien Wun Shoo.

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Chinese Moral Maxims, with a free verbal translation
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DAVIS, Sir John Francis

Hien Wun Shoo.

Hien Wun Shoo.

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Chinese Moral Maxims, with a free verbal translation

Stock Code 106117

Macao, Printed at the Honorable Company's Press [for] John Murray, 1823

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Printed in Macao at the East India Company's press due to the lack of type available in England. Chinese text and English translations of some 200 Confucian quotations collected by Davis.

One of the first British titles to use Chinese type in innovative ways, and an excellent example of Murray's experimentation with printing developments at the time.

First edition. 8vo, viii, 199 pp., original (?) brown pebble-grain cloth, a very good copy.

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