Ta Tsing Leu Lee : being the fundamental laws, and a selection from the supplementary statutes, of the penal code of China; originally printed and published in Pekin, in various successive editions, under the sanction, and by the authority, of the several emperors of the Ta Tsing, or present dynasty. / Translated from the Chinese; and accompanied with an appendix, consisting of authentic documents, and a few occasional notes, illustrative of the subject of the work; by Sir George Thomas Staunton, ...
RA Collection: Book
Record number
12/4225
Imprint
London: Printed for T. Cadell and W. Davies,, 1810.
Physical Description
[4], xxvi [i.e. lxxvi], 581, [3] p., [1] leaf of plates : facsim. ; 31 cm.
General Note
Final advertisement leaf.
Errata p.[582].
Includes index.
"Strahan and Preston, Printers Street, London"-- title-page verso.
The plate is a facsimile of the title-page of the 1805 Chinese edition of the Ta Tsing Leu Lee.
Signatures: [A]² a-i⁴ k² B-Z⁴ Aa-Zz⁴ 3A-4E⁴.
Reproductions
A copy of this book from the University of Minnesota has been digitised and made available online via Hathi Trust digital library.
Provenance
Presented by the author; acknowledged 26 February 1840 (RA Council Minutes, IX, 104).
Copy Note
Title-page inscribed in ink: 'From the author' and later (by George Jones R.A., the Academy's Librarian) 'For the use of the Library of the Royal Academy / 1840. G. J. Lib.'