Setsuyoshu 節用集 Convenient & Useful Dictionary . Compiled & published

by Ekirin Hirai by Ekirin Bon

$25,000 · Offered by Jonathan A. Hill Bookseller

1597. Seven columns of text per page. 68; 72 folding leaves. Two vols. Large 8vo 285 x 206 mm. , orig. or very early dark thick wrappers strengthened & with new endpapers , new stitching. From the colophon: Kyoto: Ekirin Hirai, 1597. The setsuyoshu, the essential Japanese dictionary, “one of the mainstays of the publishing industry and…probably the most likely book to be found in a house of few books.”–Kornicki, The Book in Japan, p. 248.

• Binding: Wrappers

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