Movable type print. 73; 66; 72 (two leaves misnumbered 70); 27 folding leaves. Four vols. Large 8vo (310 x 199 mm.), orig. patterned brown semi-stiff wrappers, orig. stitching. Namwŏn, South Jeolla province: Chŏng Kyŏng-sŏp (printed by Im T’ae-hwa 尹泰和), 1933.

First edition of this local gazetteer for Gyeongju (Kyŏngju) in South Jeolla province of South Korea. This book is remarkable in that it represents a genre that flourished in the Chosŏn period, and it was printed using the movable type technology common in the Chosŏn period but carries a 20th-century-style imprint. It shows the survival and transformation of Chosŏn textual... More

19 folding leaves. Large 8vo (293 x 189 mm.), orig. brown patterned semi-stiff wrappers, orig. stitching. Jeollanam-do: Chukkok chŏngsa , 1929.

An exceedingly rare edition of Yi I’s Ŭnp’yŏng chŏngsa hakkyu (or Eunpyeong jeongsa hakkyu) 隱屏精舍學規 [School Rules for the Hidden Study Hall], Ŭnp’yŏng chŏngsa yaksok 隱屏精舍約束 [Compact for the Hidden Study Hall], and related texts as an independent work on “school rules.” We find no other copy in WorldCat, the Korean Old and Rare Collection Information System, or in other catalogues available to us. The copy at the Academy of Korean Studies (Jangseogak, MF35/8172) appears to be from a.... More