The analytical reader: a short method for learning to read and write Chinese

by William Alexander Parsons Martin

$375 · Offered by Rulon-Miller Books · No longer available

First edition

Shanghai: printed at the American Presbyterian Mission Press, 1897. First edition, 8vo, pp. 6 , 204; contemporary quarter maroon morocco, gilt-lettered spine; scuffed and rubbed, upper joint starting, boards moderately scraped; textblock clean, and the binding remains sound. Early ownership signature of G. Caulton. Wikipedia notes that Martin was an American Presbyterian missionary to China and translator, famous for having translated a number of important

• Binding: Leather

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