Esop's fables written in Chinese by the learned Mun Mooy Seen-Shang,

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Author / Creator:Aesop.
Uniform title:Aesop's fables. Chinese
Imprint:[Canton] Printed at the Canton Press Office, 1840.
Description:5 p. l., ii-xxi, [4], iv, 104 p. pl. 29 cm.
Language:English
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Format: Print Book
Local Note:University of Chicago Library's copy contains nameplate: William George Stirling with Crest with a an indigenous warrior with upraised arrow on top, a lion with warrior in profile, and a sheaf of wheat
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/23462
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Varying Form of Title:Esop's fables in Chinese
Aesop's fables written in Chinese by the learned Mun Mooy Seen-Shang
Other authors / contributors:Mun Mooy.
Thom, Robert, 1807-1846, comp. and tr.
Notes:Chinese title at head of t.p.
"The following fables were selected indiscriminately from Esop--Phedrus--Ananius [i.e. Avianus]--Barlandus &c. &c. &c., but all published under the general name ... of Esop's fables. These were delivered orally at different times, in Mandarin Chinese, by the compiler [Robert Thom] to his native teacher; who being a good penman, found little difficulty in writing them off, in the simple easy style in which they are composed."--Preface, p. [2].
English translations, Chinese text and transliteration in parallel columns.

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Call Number: PA3855.C5 T48 1840
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