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Book Condition: Used
Seller: Jonathan A. Hill, Bookseller, Inc.

United States
About Item: Ten columns per page, 21 characters per column. Two sizes of type. 38 folding leaves. Large 8vo (321 x 200 mm.), orig. brown patterned wrappers, new stitching. [Seoul]: Pich'ŏndang 丕闡堂 Building, Sŏnggyun'gwan [today's Sungkyunkwan University], 1872. First edition and very rare; WorldCat lists only the Berkeley copy. "Scroll" is clearly used here as a figure of speech, as this is a codex-style book, printed using movable (metal or wooden?) type in 1872. Sungkyunkwan, established in 1398, was the highest educational institution in Chosŏn Korea. It is now the sight of an eponymous university. The location of the printing of this book was Pich'ŏndang, a building at Sungkyunkwan. In the interview described in the title, the young king Kojong (1852-1919, ruled 1864-1907) was querying his subjects on Confucius's Analects. Different sources give somewhat different information on the set of type used. The online catalogue for Changsŏgak (Jangseogak), which has a copy, says that wooden type was… Read More
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