Author: MACGOWAN, J.,
Title: A Manual of the Amoy Colloquial. Fourth edn.
Description: Amoy, Kulangseu: printed at Chui Keng Tong, 1898. later clothbacked marbled boards. (iii), [1](index, verso blank), 216pp. An important and rare manual, compiled by the Rev. Macgowan of the L.M.S.(London Missionary Society), incl. a dictionary of some of the principal verbs and adjectivesn in the Amoy Dialect. Incl. chinese character-printing, with transcriptions. Good copy. (bds. somewh.shaved, fr.inner and lower inner joints reinforced with a red cloth strip, some superficial browning of paper).

Keywords: linguistics/amoy/19thc.