Maehwa si 梅花詩 Plum Blossom Poems

by Hwang 李滉 Yi

$15,000 · Offered by Jonathan A. Hill Bookseller

First edition

Wood-block printed. 23 folding leaves. Folio 364 x 270 mm. , orig. wrappers wrappers somewhat soiled & marked , new stitching. Andong: Privately Printed at Tosan sŏwŏn or Dosan seowon , most likely 1578 or, perhaps, 1638 .First edition, privately printed at the Tosan Academy, the private Confucian academy established in 1574, following Yi’s death; this is certainly one of the earliest books to be printed there, if not the first. Yi Hwang

• Binding: Wrappers

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