CONFUCIUS : Louen Yu Talks of Confucius with disciples. Illustrations by CHOU LING (). Lyon, Éditions du fleuve, 1959. One volume. 16 by 24,3 cm. 237 pages. Softbound in brown silk with gilt decoration and title, under 2 black lacquered wooden boards with engraved title and green silk ribbons, in publisher's slipcase. Very good condition of the copy. With eight colored hors-texts by CHOU LING (complete), colored lamp-heads, and the framing of each page by two columns of Chinese writing. Edition at 419 copies, here a numbered copy on pur fil (273). A neat and classic illustration for a fundamental text of Chinese philosophy.

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