Author: Bingyao Yu; I V Gillis
Title: Title Index to the Ssu K'u Ch'üan Shu
Description: Peiping, Printed by the Standard Press, 1934. full leather with gilt embossed title on front cover and spine. Marbled endpapers. [422] pages ; 28 x 22 cm. "A catalogue of this collection of Chinese literature, assembled by imperial orders, 1772-74, was completed in 1782. The present index is based upon the edition of this catalogue issued in 1868 by the Kuang-tung shu-chü."--Foreword. Quite scarce, no copies found for sale or at auction in the past 80 years. Foreword written by John C. Ferguson. P{reface by I.V. Gillis. A collection of the titles of books found in China in appx. 1774-1776. VG-, some discoloration to front cover, tear to leather at the top of spine .

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