Manuscript on preprinted paper. 72.5; 57; 52.5; 80 folding leaves. Five numbered kwŏn & purok in four volumes. Large 8vo, orig. semi-stiff wrappers, handwritten title on upper covers, new stitching. [Korea]: [after 1666].

A fine Korean manuscript of the collected works of the martyr Cho Hŏn (alias Chungbong, 1544–92), remembered for his heroic sacrifice during the Imjin War of 1592. These collected works were first published in a woodblock edition in 1666. Pre-1910 copies of this work are very rare: we find only three copies in WorldCat, all woodblock-printed, held at UC Berkeley (Asami Library 39.47), Harvard, and Columbia.

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