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Bedford-Jones : The Breeze in the Moonlight the Second Book of Genius

Putnam's Sons, 1914, New York, 1926

In very Good condition in deep blue cloth Hardcover, illustrated endpapers and translated from the chinese by George Soulie de Morant. 371 pages, illustrated with many full-page black and white illustrations. Early roamntic Chinese novel by an unknown author known only by pseudonym. In the "Books of Genius," a famous collection of the best novels and plays begun about 1644 by the publisher-savant Tsin Cheng-tran, who was decapitated in 1662 at the age of thirty-five for the viloence of his opinions, it stands second in the list of ten. The novel has gone through numerous adaptations and translations, and has had several different titles, including "Traditions of a Perfect Couple," "The Pleasing Union," and "The Fortunate Union." This translation is the first to be made directly from Chinese into French, with all the poems, then translated into English. With simple black-and-white illustrations reproduced from those made in the sixteenth century by Ts'iou Yng (Che-cheou), the most celebrated painter of the Ming Dynasty. Attractive silver lettering and blindstamping on spine.. Book Condition: Very Good

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