A Chinese-English dictionary ... Second edition, revised and enlarged

by Herbert A. Giles

$225 · Offered by Rulon-Miller Books · No longer available

Taipei: Literature House, 1964 . First reprinting of the second edition, 2 volumes in 1, thick 4to, pp. xviii, 84, 1711, 1 ; original red cloth stamped in gilt on upper cover and spine; fine copy. The work took eighteen years to compile and another two years just to print it. The nineteenth century ended on a high note in Chinese bilingual lexicography with the publication of Herbert A. Giles' A Chinese-English Dictionary. Giles 1845-1935 began his career

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