Compiled by Yi Jungrin 李中璘 & Afterword by Yi Man’in 李晩寅. Printed with wooden movable type. 60; 54 folding leaves. Four juan in two vols. Large 8vo, orig. semi-stiff wrappers, stitched. [Korea: 1898 or after 1890].

First edition of this collection of the writings of Yi Su-yŏn (1693–1748), a sixth-generation descendant of Yi Hwang 李滉 (1501–70), who was best known by his art name, T’oegye 退溪 (“Retreating Creek”). An intellectual admirer of Zhu Xi (1130–1200), the Chinese philosopher whose interpretation of Neo-Confucianism became the dominant ideological framework in late imperial China and Chosŏn Korea, T’oegye is widely regarded as the... More