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The Shi King, The Old Poetry Classic of the Chinese : A Close Metrical Translation with Annotations (Sir John Lubbock’s Hundred Books)

Author(s):

Jennings, William (traslator)

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Binding:

Hardcover

Volume Condition:

Very Good

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N/A

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Language:

English

Publisher Name:

George Routledge and Sons

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Publication Place:

London, UK

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Book ID:

010189

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£43.00

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Not dated but circa 1890. 384pp, complete with fold-out chart showing a specimen of a stanza in the original. Introduction by the translator. Half bound in brown leather over marbled boards with gilt lettering and decorations to spine. Marbled endpapers, top edge gilt (leather a little worn at edges, rubbed around corners, heavily sunned on spine). Internally neat, clean, bright and tight. From the Sir John Lubbock’s Hundred Books series. Handsome, vintage volume of a translation of the oldest existing collection of Chinese poetry, comprising 305 works from the 11th to 7th centuries BC.

Sir John Lubbock’s Hundred Books, Series Books, poetry, Chinese poetry, classic literature

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