Compilation of Rites for the Bamboo Slips

by Kallye Hwich’An 簡禮彙纂

$5,500 · Offered by Jonathan A. Hill Bookseller

65 folding leaves. 4to, orig. semi-stiff wrappers wrappers somewhat worn , old stitching. Korea : 1849-64 . An early, possibly first, edition of this rare anonymous manual for the general education of writers of classical Chinese from late Chosŏn Korea. The term “bamboo slips” originally referred to the material supports of writing in antiquity. In classical Chinese usage of later ages — and in this title — the phrase was used metonymically in

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