Author: LEGGE, JAMES (Transl.):
Title: The She-king, or the Book of Poetry. Four parts in two volumes (complete). (The Chinese Classics. Volume IV:I-II). London, Henry Frowde, Oxford University Press & Hongkong, Printed at the London Missionary Society's Printing Office, no date (about 1875-80).
Description: . Large 8vo. Pp. xii, 182, 243 + one double page map; (ii), 244-785. With text in Chinese and English. Partly unopened. Publisher's brown cloth, gilt lettering. Bookplate. Comprises: The first part of the She-King, or the Lessons from the States; and the Prolegomena. The second, third and fourth parts of the She-King, or the minor Odes of the kingdom, the greater Odes of the kingdom, the sacrificial Odes and the Praise-songs; and the Indexes. This set of works titled The Chinese Classics was first published in seven volumes at Hong Kong in 1871. We believe this is a reprint, and the first British edition. Another revised edition appeared in 1893-5 at Oxford (Clarendon Press). James Legge (1815-97), a Scottish sinologist who served as a missionary in China for 34 years, and later appointed the first Professor of Chinese at Oxford University. He was a prolific translator of classical Chinese texts into English, of which the most famous work is "The Chinese Classics" which includes extensive commentaries by Legge. Scarce. Cf. Cordier BS 1368. Provenance: Richard S. Björkdahl (1888-1980), Swedish missionary in China 1913-45 (Jianli, Wuchang, Yichang, Huangzhou, Henan).

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