The I Ching or Book of Changes.

[I Ching]. Wilhelm, Richard / Baynes, Cary F. (transl.) / Jung, Carl Gustav (foreword).

Published by London, Routledge and Kegan Paul Ltd., (1965).

About this Item

2 vols. 8vo. (12), XLII, (4), 394, (2), (2 blank) pp. with folding chart; (10), 376 pp. Original blue cloth titled in gilt on spine, top edges blue, in dust jackets. Housed in custom blue cloth clamshell case. The ultimate New-Age I Ching: a presentation copy from the Beatles' George Harrison to Ravi Shankar, inscribed: "To Raviji - with much love and thanks", signed by Harrison and dated Christmas 1966. The second volume also inscribed: "To Raviji - love from George Harrison". - Harrison first met Shankar in London in 1966, and soon after travelled to India to study sitar with the famous Indian musician. It was the beginning of a long friendship and artistic collaboration, which inspired some of the Beatles' most iconic songs, brought Indian Classical music to a much wider international audience, and influenced the trajectory of pop music writ large. The experience encouraged Harrison's interest not only in Indian music, but in Eastern philosophy more generally - explaining perhaps the choice of this translation of the Chinese philosophical classic, the I Ching, with a preface by the famous psychoanalyst C. G. Jung, who would appear on the cover of the Beatles' album "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" in the following year. - Volume II jacket wanting rear flap, light wear to jackets, otherwise quite well preserved.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The I Ching or Book of Changes.
• Publisher: London, Routledge and Kegan Paul Ltd., (1965).
• Binding: Hardcover
• Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included
• Weight: 500 grams
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • Literature after 1880