Translated from Chinese to English with an introduction and notes by Lionel Giles.

Norwalk, Connecticut: The Easton Press, (1976).

Collector's Edition, The Greatest Books Ever Written Series.

Frontispiece portrait art specially commissioned for this Easton Press Collector's edition.

Six double-page spread color plate illustrations by Tseng Yu-Ho.

A lovely presentable classic gift.

Easton Press bookplate, with former owner's name typed-in, attached to the verso of the first blank page, else very tight, crisp and unread in brown leather with patterned gilt embossed Chinese saying with borders to the front and rear covers, gilt embossed borders and titles to the raised two-band hub spine, brown-and-yellow headband and tail-band, all page edges gilt, golden-brown satin-moire end-papers, and a sewn-in silk ribbon marker.

10.6" by 6.5" by 1.2"; 130 pages; plus introduction, preliminaries, and publisher's preface.

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