INKYO 韻鏡 in Chinese: Yunjing; Mirror of Rhymes

by Inkyo

$5,000 · Offered by Jonathan A. Hill Bookseller

Ten columns per page, 20 characters per column. The first leaf in Japanese, the remainder in Chinese. 1 p.l., 52 folding leaves. 8vo 275 x 173 mm. , orig. wrappers wrappers quite rubbed & and somewhat worn , old stitching. From the colophon: “Kyoto: Tahara Ninzaemon, 1641.” A very rare early edition — not in WorldCat or NIJL — of one of the “two priceless records of the earlier stages of the Chinese language.”–Edwin G. Pulleyblank,

• Binding: Wrappers

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