Manuscript Collection Of Many Of His Poems Compiled In Korea Entitled In Manuscript On Upper Cover

by Bai Li

$4,250 · Offered by Jonathan A. Hill Bookseller · No longer available

43 folding leaves mostly split at fore-edges, with no loss of text . Small folio 344 x 233 mm. , orig. wrappers soiled , new stitching. Korea: late 18th or early 19th century . A beautifully written manuscript collection of about 400 poems by Bai Li 701-62 , one of the two greatest poets of the Tang dynasty, and certainly China’s greatest poetic personality see Lewis, China’s Cosmopolitan Empire, 254 . The manuscript presents

• Binding: Wrappers

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