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WILLLIAMS (Samuel Wells)

Easy Lessons in Chinese, or Progressive Exercises to Facilitate the Study of that Language, especially Adapted to the Canton Dialect. Macao: Printed at the Office of the Chinese Repository, 1842, 8vo, frontis, 287pp., a few spots, folding illustration, later cloth.
*Samuel Wells Williams (1812-1884) was an American Missionary and Sinologist sent to China in 1833 by the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions, where he was in charge of their printing.



binding tight; foxing to inner margin of folding table; 9 or so pages of spots. Unobtrusive Royal Institution blindstamp to title (matching their gilt arms stamped to foot of spine). Release ("dis*****") stamp of their library to foot of rear paste down.

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