Yuyangshanren jing hua lu jian zhu 漁洋山人精華錄箋注 [Essential Selections by the Hermit of Yuyang Hill, with Notes & Commentary]
Edited by Xu Huai 徐淮, with notes by Jin Rong 金榮. Full-page woodcut port. of the author. One introductory juan with biographical texts, 12 juan, & Supplement (bu 補) in 8 vols. 8vo, orig. blue wrappers, new stitching. [China]: Fenghui Tang 鳳翽堂, after 1736.
An early edition, with additions, of the poetry of “the early Qing scholars’ hero” Wang Shizhen (1634-1711) (Matteini, The Ghost in the City, 15). Wang — who took the literary name “Hermit of Yuyang Hill” in reference to a hill by lake Taihu, whose scenery he admired — was a writer and a member of the Kangxi emperor’s private secretarial staff in the so-called Southern Study (Nan shufang 南書房). He participated in some of the major editorial projects undertaken at the Kangxi court. He was one of the most famous writers of his generation, particularly noted for his poetry, of which the present work is one of the most important collections. This edition comes with a chronological biography (nianpu 年譜) of Wang, his portrait, and funerary inscriptions.
Xu Huai’s and Jin Rong’s edition is based on the Essential Selections that Lin Ji 林佶 had published for Wang in 1700. Wang had “entrusted [Lin, who had “exquisite calligraphic skills”] with a bundle of writings to edit, hand copy, and supervise the carving of its blocks” (Ko, The Social Life of Inkstones, 94). Our edition contains an annotated version of that work. One page is reproduced in Lin Ji’s clerical script calligraphy. Our copy is possibly a re-engraved version, like WorldCat 54948150, since it does not contain the date 1736 (Qianlong 1) anywhere, as some copies apparently do (see, e.g., WorldCat 173197162).
Fine set, preserved in a hantao.
References
Ko, Dorothy. The Social Life of Inkstones: Artisans and Scholars in Early Qing China. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2017.
Matteini, Michele. The Ghost in the City: Luo Ping and the Craft of Painting in Eighteenth-Century China. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2023.
Wang Rongguo 王榮國 et al., eds. Liaoning tushuguan cang guji jingpin tulu 遼寧圖書館藏古籍精品圖錄 [Illustrated catalogue of selected rare books held at the Liaoning Provincial Library]. Shenyang: Shenyang chubanshe, 2008.
An early edition, with additions, of the poetry of “the early Qing scholars’ hero” Wang Shizhen (1634-1711) (Matteini, The Ghost in the City, 15). Wang — who took the literary name “Hermit of Yuyang Hill” in reference to a hill by lake Taihu, whose scenery he admired — was a writer and a member of the Kangxi emperor’s private secretarial staff in the so-called Southern Study (Nan shufang 南書房). He participated in some of the major editorial projects undertaken at the Kangxi court. He was one of the most famous writers of his generation, particularly noted for his poetry, of which the present work is one of the most important collections. This edition comes with a chronological biography (nianpu 年譜) of Wang, his portrait, and funerary inscriptions.
Xu Huai’s and Jin Rong’s edition is based on the Essential Selections that Lin Ji 林佶 had published for Wang in 1700. Wang had “entrusted [Lin, who had “exquisite calligraphic skills”] with a bundle of writings to edit, hand copy, and supervise the carving of its blocks” (Ko, The Social Life of Inkstones, 94). Our edition contains an annotated version of that work. One page is reproduced in Lin Ji’s clerical script calligraphy. Our copy is possibly a re-engraved version, like WorldCat 54948150, since it does not contain the date 1736 (Qianlong 1) anywhere, as some copies apparently do (see, e.g., WorldCat 173197162).
Fine set, preserved in a hantao.
References
Ko, Dorothy. The Social Life of Inkstones: Artisans and Scholars in Early Qing China. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2017.
Matteini, Michele. The Ghost in the City: Luo Ping and the Craft of Painting in Eighteenth-Century China. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2023.
Wang Rongguo 王榮國 et al., eds. Liaoning tushuguan cang guji jingpin tulu 遼寧圖書館藏古籍精品圖錄 [Illustrated catalogue of selected rare books held at the Liaoning Provincial Library]. Shenyang: Shenyang chubanshe, 2008.
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Title
Yuyangshanren jing hua lu jian zhu 漁洋山人精華錄箋注 [Essential Selections by the Hermit of Yuyang Hill, with Notes & Commentary]
Author
WANG, Shizhen 王士禛
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