Ŏjŏng Yuk chu yakson 御定陸奏約選. Edited

by King Chŏngjo by Zhi Lu

$4,750 · Offered by Jonathan A. Hill Bookseller

Ten columns per page, 18 characters per column. 2, 37, 34, 1 =74 folding leaves. Two parts in one vol. Small folio 350 x 228 mm. , orig. wrappers wrappers rather rubbed & somewhat soiled , later stitching. Jeolla Province: the Governor’s Office , from the colophon: July 1797. A most uncommon Korean woodblock ?, see below book, which reproduces the finest of the Korean moveable metal typefaces, the kabinja. “Selections from the memorials of

• Binding: Wrappers

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