The Divine Classic of Nan-Hua; Being the Works of Chuang Tsze, Taoist Philosopher. With an Excursus, and Copious Annotations in English and Chinese

Shanghai, Hongkong, Yokohama, Singapore: Kelly and Walsh Limited, 1880. Early Kelly and Walsh edition. Hardcover. Good. ix, xxxviii, 425pp. Octavo [21.5 cm] Bound by the publisher in red cloth over boards. Floral endpapers. Cloth binding frayed at the extremities, particularly along the joints. Rear free endpaper detached, but present. Front free endsheet and final page of text partially detached. Intermittent underlining, markings, and brief notations in pencil (more so to the first half of the text). Closed tears to top margins of pp. 379-382. Bookplate of Wilson S. Howell on the front pastedown. Scarce. Frederic Henry Balfour (1806-1909) was a British expatriot editor, essayist, author, and avid sinologist who lived in Shanghai. He served as editor of the "North-China Herald" and was the author of "Waifs and Strays from the Far East" and "Idiomatic Dialogues in the Peking Colloquial. (Inventory #: 69554)