Elements of Chinese grammar : with a preliminary dissertation on the characters, and the colloquial medium of the Chinese, and an appendix containing the Ta-Hyoh of Confucius with a translation / by J. Marshman, D.D.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Marshman, Joshua, 1768-1837.

Contributor:

Ralston, Robert, 1761-1836, former owner.

Ralston, Gerard, former owner.

Foreign Imprints Collection (Athenaeum of Philadelphia)

Language:

Chinese

English

Subjects (All):

Chinese language.

Physical Description:

[4], xvi, vii, [3], 566, 56 p. ; 27 cm.

Other Title:

Clavis sinica

Place of Publication:

Serampore [India] : Printed at the Mission Press, 1814.

Notes:

At head of title: Caption in Chinese characters.

Half-title: Clavis Sinica.

First edition, second issue, which has the Sino-English title, the errata leaf, an expanded preface, blank N4 cancelled, and the complete text of the Ta-Hyoh which was unfinished in the first issue.

Signatures: [*] A B [*] A-Z Aa-Zz Aaa-Sss A-G (leaf N cancelled).

Caption in Chinese.

"Ta-Hyoh, with a translation and a praxis, explaining each character as it occurs" is on 56 p. (6th sequence)

Errors in pagination: 95, 329, 342, 487 and 493 numbered as 59, 339, 842, 587 and 483 respectively.

Local Notes:

Athenaeum copy: Half title with ms. inscription: To Robert Ralston Esq. from the author in token of the deep sense he has of Mr. Ralston's love to the mission of Serampore and to the course of God in general, Serampore, June 29th, 1816.

Athenaeum copy: T.p with ms. inscription: Presented to the Athenaeum by Mr. Ger'd Ralston. (Gerard Ralston was an Athenaeum stockholder, 1817-1820)

Athenaeum copy: Conserved and rebound in 2002 with a grant from the Florence Gould Foundation.

Athenaeum copy: Tipped in at end: A hymn to Christ (in Sanskrit) and "An example of benevolence set forth, by the wealthy Hindoos of Calcutta..... Bombay : Mision Press, 1818. (In English and Sanskrit)

Contains:

Confucius Ta-Hyoh. English.

Bound With:

Athenaeum copy: Bound with: Morrison, Robert. A view of China, for philological purposes. London: Published and sold by Black Parbury, and Allen ..., 1817.