Printed with wooden movable type. 71 folding leaves. Three kwŏn in one vol. Large 8vo, orig. patterned pale brown wrappers (a little frayed around extremities), new stitching. Korea: 1912.

First and only edition of poetry and prose collection by the late Chŏson scholar Cho Tal-sik (1813–50; pen name Yagam or “Small Hermitage”), posthumously compiled and printed by his grandson Cho Yeong-gyu in 1912. The work opens with a Preface by renowned scholar Song Byeong-hwa 宋炳華 (1852–1916), dated to the latter half of the ninth lunar month, 1912, and closes with a Postscript by Cho Tal-sik’s descendant Cho Seok-je 趙錫濟 (1848–1925)... More