Tae Myŏngnyul kanghae or Dae Myeongnyul ganghae 大明律講解 The Great Ming Code Explained

by Emperor of China Ming Taizu

$12,500 · Offered by Jonathan A. Hill Bookseller

69; 84; 102 folding leaves. 30 parts in three vols. Large 8vo 306 x 202 mm. , orig. patterned yellow-brown wrappers, new stitching. Korea : final volume with date 1903. A rare metal movable type edition printed at the Ministry of Justice in Seoul in 1903 using a font cut in 1816. The text was originally compiled in Chosŏn Korea on royal command in ca. 1440. The earliest edition that can be confidently dated was printed by woodblocks in Kyŏngju in

• Binding: Wrappers

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