How to Write Chinese. Containing General Rules for Writing Chinese, and Particular Directions for Writing the Radicals.

Second edition, corrected from the first edition of 1888, of this rare primer, which aids the student of written Chinese by breaking characters into their component strokes and radicals. J. Dyer Ball, a member of the Hong Kong Civil Service and a resident in China for four decades, wrote many works on Chinese language and culture. He also devised a new system for romanizing Cantonese. Large octavo. With 5 folding illustrations at end, illustrations and Chinese characters in text. Original drab boards, brown cloth backstrip, front cover lettered in black. Spine worn, large tidemarks on boards, front inner hinge strengthened with adhesive tape, first few leaves similarly consolidated at gutter, fragile folding illustrations with tidemarks at head and only a few splits and marginal losses: very good.