![Item ID: 11420 Pukbyŏk sŏnsaeng munjip 北壁先生文集 [Collection of Writings by Master Pukbyŏk (Northern Wall)]. Hong-je 金弘濟 KIM.](https://jonathanahill.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/11420.jpg?width=768&height=1000&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1781175193)
Pukbyŏk sŏnsaeng munjip 北壁先生文集 [Collection of Writings by Master Pukbyŏk (Northern Wall)].
81 folding leaves. Two kwon in one vol. Large 8vo (310 x 208 mm.), orig. semi-stiff patterned wrappers (somewhat rubbed & soiled). Korea: 1886.
$6500.00
First and only edition of this collection of poems and writings by the late-Chosŏn scholar Kim Hong-je (1661-1737). Compiled posthumously by Kim’s descendants Kim Rak-ku and Kim Nag-yuk in 1886, the book includes a Preface by Kim Yak-ryŏn and a Postscript by Kim Chŏl-su, both dated pyŏngsul (1886).
The first part contains Kim’s poems, letters, miscellaneous writings, and records, while the second serves as an appendix, including elegiac poems, biographical accounts, epitaphs, and a tomb inscription received after his death. Kim early on abandoned aspirations for the civil service examination and retreated to a mountain village, where he cultivated fields and built a private Confucian academy to educate later generations. While he produced almost no secular writings, his poetry has been celebrated for its love of nature and beautiful rhyme-matching style.
In very good condition.
Price: $6,500.00
Item ID: 11420
