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

by Herbert A. Giles

$950 · Offered by Rulon-Miller Books

London: Bernard Quaritch; Shanghai, Hongkong et al : Kelly and Walsh, 1912. 2 volumes, very large, thick 4to, pp. xviii, 942; 943-1711, 1 , 84; later brown cloth, gilt lettering direct on spine; a very good, clean, sturdy copy. Ownership signature in each volume of Shan Wing Chan. 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

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