INKYO 韻鏡 in Chinese: Yunjing; Mirror of Rhymes

by Inkyo

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

1608. 11 columns per page, 20 characters per column. Written in Chinese with manuscript Japanese reading marks. 52 folding leaves. Large 8vo 290 x 205 mm. , orig. wrappers wrappers somewhat worn & rubbed , manuscript title-label on upper cover, new stitching. From the colophon: “Kyoto: Kotetsu shoin, 1608.” A very rare movable type edition — not in WorldCat or NIJL — of one of the “two priceless records of the earlier stages of the Chinese

• Binding: Wrappers

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