Price: £175
Subject: Philosophy
Published Date: 1934
Stock Number: 70903
(Your basket is currently empty)A Study of the Tao Tê Ching and its Place in Chinese Thought.
Description: FIRST EDITION, sparse marginal annotation in pencil (those of Victor Skipp, see below), a few spots to initial and closing leaves, pp. 262, crown 8vo, original black cloth, bacstrip lettered in gilt (partially against a blue ground), top edge yellow, a few spots to edges, contemporary gift inscription to flyleaf with later ownership inscription below, dustjacket a little darkened to backstrip panel and borders, rubbed to extremities and slightly chipped and nicked, larger chip at foot of rear panel, price-clipped, very goodPublication Details: George Allen & Unwin, 1934
Notes: Waley's translation of Lao Tzu's work is encapsulated within an abundance of critical material.Formerly the copy of historian and art collector Victor Skipp, an amateur philosopher.
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