MATHEWS' CHINESE-ENGLISH DICTIONARY: Compiled for the China Inland Mission. by MATHEWS, R.H

Cambridge 1960, Harvard Univ. Black cloth, very good, 1226p. revised American edition, radical index, appendix, 2 vol.set with the separate English index volume of 186p., Cambridge, 1947. COMPLETE SET BEST EDITION SCARCE This volume meets the demand for a small dictionary which is at the same time comprehensive enough for the needs of the ordinary student. It contains 7773 Chinese characters and 104,000 compounds taken from classics, general literature, magazines, newspapers &c. All necessary corrections in regard to pronunciation have been made,the tones of the cha- racters have been checked, and a large number of new terms have been added to facilitate the reading of contemporary periodicals and newspapers, whether political, economic, chemical or military. * This work suppies the most important part of Chinese- English vocabulary, with comprehensive organization of all radicals neatly arranged, easy to use, with compounds and numbering system. The standard source for translators. This work while useful, is even more useful with the additional & separate English index published by Harvard University in 1947, uniformly bound in black cloth and is uniform in size with the dictionary, not found in the early editions. Without the index, this book is extremely hard to use ! * The original was published in Shanghai, 1931, and had several reprints, but this is the best and most complete edition. An essental reference for any student of Chinese language study. A FAMOUS & CLASSIC WORK ! * .