Ŏje kiguyŏn hoerok 御製耆耇宴會錄 Imperially Composed Record of the Banquet of Elders

by King of Korea 英祖 YŎNgjo

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. 1 , 46 folding leaves. Small folio 346 x 227 mm. , orig. yellow semi-stiff wrappers lightly rubbed , title in manuscript on upper cover, old stitching. Hansŏng : Un’gak, 1773. First, and apparently only, printing of the official record of “linked songs” composed at the royal banquet of elders on the occasion of King Yŏngjo’s r. 1724-76 80th birthday in 1773, printed the day after the banquet and presented to its guests. The title is not

• Binding: Wrappers

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