A Chinese Biographical Dictionary.

GILES, Herbert A.

$1,250.00

Item Number: 138772

London: Bernard Quaritch and Shanghai: Kelly & Walsh, Limited, 1898.

First edition of Giles’ Prix Julien award-winning work which “enjoys pride of place in the history of Chinese bilingual dictionaries as the authoritative source for the Wade-Giles system of Romanization” (Yong and Peng). Octavo, bound in three quarter morocco over marbled boards, gilt titles to the spine, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt, original publisher’s wrappers bound in. In very good condition.

British diplomat, sinologist, and professor of Chinese at the University of Cambridge Herbert Giles remains best known for modifying the Mandarin Chinese romanization system established by Thomas Wade, resulting in the widely known Wade–Giles Chinese romanization system and his monumental Chinese-English Dictionary, published in 1892. Among his many other works were translations of the Analects of Confucius, the Lao Tzu (Tao Te Ching), the Chuang Tzu.