[In Chinese: Iu-Kiao-Li: or, The two fair cousins].

8vo (foxing).

Nice binding by Duplanil: straight grained red morocco, blind and gilt orn. covers & flat spine, front wr. preserved (sm. traces of use, cut short).

With 10 woodcut full-page ills. The "Iu-Kiao-Li" is an early-Qing Chinese caizi jiaren novel (fiction involving a romance between a young scholar and a beautiful girl), one of the best known together with "Ping Shan Leng Yan" and "Haoiqu zhuan". It was translated in French in 1826 by Jean-Pierre Abel-Rémusat and the following year, based on his translation, into English. Prov. Édouard Rahir (bookpl.). - [Georges Petit].