Captain Piggott (3 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. on green cloth.

1 volume in quarto, 379 pp., hardback, cloth covers soiled, stained and lightly bowing, corners bumped, inside very clean, overall good condition. Pages are string-bound in oriental style. First edition of this rare book. Introduction by E.M. Hobart-Hampden.{this volume is a humble attempt to place before European students of Japanese a compendium of the writer's experience in the study of Sosho.

Piggott, F.S.G., The Elements of S?sho. Kelly & Walsh (c.1940). New Edition. Paper wrapped hard boards with an orange buckram quarter spine. The edges of boards show chipping predominantly at the corners and along the fore edges, where paper has started to come away. The boards show some scuffing and wear but are quite good considering the age. Internally the pages are clean, and the binding is tight. Ex libris, from the School of Oriental and African Studies Department of the Near East, with a faint and inoffensive purple stamp inside the front cover. There is also the number 39 written on the bottom edge and a catalogue number in pen at the top left-hand corner inside the front board. The first page of this book is a note about the previous edition, where only around 550 copies were printed, and the original plates were lost when an earthquake devastated Yokohama in 1923, which killed more than a hundred thousand people. This edition's year is unclear but negotiations for reprinting were paused in Japan in 1938, and this edition was printed on behalf of the war office, to aid service students studying Japanese. Split into four parts it attempts to be as comprehensive as possible in the breadth of S?sho radicals and construction thereof and attempts to compare similar characters frequently. It would be a book used in tandem with other academic texts as it does not attempt to be a S?sho dictionary just that it will help students understand the construction.