Wang Keaou Lwan pih neen chang han, or The lasting resentment of Miss Keaou Lwan Wang, a Chinese tale; founded on fact. Translated from the original by Sloth. (Inscribed by Rev. David Thom)

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Canton : printed at the Canton Press Office, 1839. Small quarto, recent half calf over marbled papered boards, spine with contrasting red leather title label lettered in gilt; bound with the original printed green upper wrapper (stained and re-margined) retaining the two original pasted-on printed slips worded Translated from the original by Robert Thom, Esq., resident in Canton (these are pasted over Translated from the original by Sloth , and London:- Ball, Arnold, Co. Paternoster Row, 1840 , respectively), the verso of the wrapper with a faint inscription by Thom s brother, Rev. David Thom: translated into German published at Leipzig, by [Jurany] 1846 ; the title-page (expertly relaid) has two further inscriptions by David Thom, the first presenting this copy To the Curators of the Radcliffe Library, Oxford, from D. Thom , the second explaining the true identity behind the pseudonym Sloth : Robert Thom Esq. Consul at Ningpo, China ; pp. [i-iv], v-viii, lithographed plate Lithographed at Canton 1839 (reproducing a Chinese woodcut), [1]-66, [2 blank]; the plate with water-staining (mostly confined to the margins, but encroaching slightly on the bottom corner of the image), the first page of the main text with light foxing, otherwise clean and crisp throughout. Translation by consular official and sinologist Robert Thom of novel thirty-five in the Ming anthology of stories known as the Jingu qiguan. Robert Thom (1807-1846) became fluent in Mandarin while working for the Engli

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