Chinese and English Dictionary; Containing all the words in the Chinese Imperial Dictionary, arranged according to the Radicals.

£9,500 · Offered by Maggs Bros Ltd

This is overall the second Chinese-English dictionary, printed a couple of decades after Morrison’s ground-braking but somewhat unwieldy ‘Dictionary of the Chinese Language’ which was published between 1815-1823 in six large (and heavy) 4to volumes in Macao. Medhurst (1796-1857) was trained as a typesetter and printer

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