Woodblock-printed. 4, 5, 7, 69 folding leaves. One kwŏn in one vol. Small folio (323 x 210 mm.), orig. semi-stiff patterned wrappers with handwritten title, new stitching. [Hansŏng]: Naegak, kyŏngjin [1820].

Woodblock-printed by the Palace Library of Chŏson Korea, this is a collection of commentaries on the Great Learning, the first of the Four Books as established by the Neo-Confucian philosopher Zhu Xi 朱熹 (1130-1200), compiled on imperial order by Hu Guang (1370-1418).

First published in 1415, the Comprehensive Commentaries incorporated the writings of notable philosophers and commentators such as Zhu Xi, Zhen Dexiu 真德秀 (1178-1235), Wu Zhenzi 吳真子, Ni... More