Wu bai jia zhu yin bian Han Changli xian sheng quan ji Five Hundred Notes

by Yu 韓愈 Han, nickname: Han Changli 韓昌黎

$6,000 · Offered by Jonathan A. Hill Bookseller · No longer available

40 parts in 12 vols. 8vo, orig. brown wrappers, new stitching. China : Liang yi tang, 1763. A rare edition of this anthology of early Chinese writings, collected by Han Yu 韓愈 766-824 , a major figure in the history of Chinese literature, comparable in stature to Dante, Shakespeare, or Goethe in their respective literary traditions. He was among that small group of writers whose works not only became classics of the language —

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