Ŏje p’yoch’ung yunŭm [or] Oeje pyochung yuneum 御製表忠綸音 [Royally Commissioned Silk Ribbon Sounds on the...
Printed with metal movable type. 24 folding leaves. Small folio (345 x 221 mm.), orig. semi-stiff wrappers (wrappers somewhat soiled), later stitching. [Korea]: 1788.
First edition of this rare royal proclamation issued on the 60-year anniversary of the Musin rebellion. “This rebellion arrived on the 15th day of the third month of 1728, when several hundred rebels seized control of the provincial county seat of Ch’ŏngju, over a hundred kilometers to the southeast of the capital” of Seoul. One political faction was targeting another and hoped to place a royal relative on the throne who would be more... More