HOPKINS, LIONEL CHARLES. (Transl.): - The Six Scripts. Amoy, A.A. Marcal, 1881.

. Pp. (ii), xx, 61. Original cloth, rebacked. Presentation copy to Walter Perceval Yetts. Rare first edition.A translation of Tai T'ung's "Liu shu ku" or "History of the Six Writings" which is one of the most important classic readings in Chinese philosophy. It was written in the Southern Song dynasty (1127-1279). Hopkins provides an introduction to the principles of Chinese character formation and the arrangement of "Liu shu ku", further explaining the relationship between sound, form and meaning. Includes a long introduction by Hopkins with references to other Western sinologists and their ideas about "Liu Shu ku". Lionel Charles Hopkins was a British Sinologist who lived in China between 1871 and 1908.Provenance: Walter Perceval Yetts (1878-1957), a British surgeon and sinologist. A reprint of this work was published in Cambridge in 1954 with a memoir of Hopkins by Yetts. Cordier BS1614.

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