WALEY, Arthur.

£650 · Offered by Peter Harrington · No longer available

More Translations from the Chinese. First edition, first impression, signed by the author on the title page. Alongside A Hundred and Seventy Chinese Poems, this work marks the beginning of Waley's development into the West's most well-known translator of Chinese poetry after Ezra Pound.Provenance: with the distinctive bookplate of Anthony Hobson (1921-2014) on the front pastedown. Hobson was a scholar, esteemed bibliophile, and expert on Renaissance bindings. He served as president of the Association Internationale de Bibliophilie between 1985 and 1999.

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