 The popular works of the country are greatly cheaper than ours ; they have no taxes on literature, and three or four volumes of any ordinary work, of the octavo size and shape, may be had for a sum equivalent to two shillings. A Canton bookseller's manuscript...  The Inequality of Human Races - Page 96by Arthur comte de Gobineau - 1915 - 217 pagesFull view - About this book
 | sir John Francis Davis (1st bart.) - China - 1836 - 484 pages
...popular works of the country are greatly cheaper than ours ; they have no taxes on literature, and three or four volumes of any ordinary work, of the...books of Confucius, including the Commentary, at a sum rather under half-a-cro\vn. The, cheapness of their common literature is occasioned partly by the... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - English literature - 1836 - 606 pages
...222. The popular works of China are exceedingly cheap. Mr. Davis tells us, that four volumes of an ordinary work, of the octavo size and shape, may be had for a sum equivalent to two shillings. With regard to paper he says — ' The date of the invention of paper seems to prove that some of the... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - English literature - 1836 - 610 pages
...222. The popular works of China are exceedingly cheap. Mr. Davis tells us, that four volumes of an ordinary work, of the octavo size and shape, may be had for a sum equivalent to two shillings. With regard to paper he says — ' The date of the invention of paper seems to prove that some of the... | |
 | Sir John Francis Davis - China - 1840 - 430 pages
...in which characters can be more v formed. cheaper than ours : they have no taxes on literature, and three or four volumes of any ordinary work, of the octavo size and shape, mav be had for a sum equivalent to two shillings. A Canton bookseller's manuscript catalogue marked... | |
 | 1841 - 908 pages
...literature is not only voluminous, but it is entirely exempt from taxation, and very cheap. Mr. Davis says three or four volumes of any ordinary work of the octavo size, may be had for a sum equivalent to two shillings sterling. Among their other moral works, the Chinese... | |
 | sir John Francis Davis (1st bart.) - 1846 - 520 pages
...populai works of the country are greatly cheaper than ours ; they have no taxes on 'literature, and three or four volumes of any ordinary work, of the octavo size ami shape, may be had for a sum equivalent to two shillings. A Canton bookseller's manuscript catalogue... | |
 | Sir John Francis Davis - 1846 - 514 pages
...popular works of the country are greatly cheaper than ours ; they have no taxes on literature, and three or four volumes of any ordinary work, of the...books of Confucius, including the Commentary, at a sum rather under halfa-crown. The cheapness of their common literature is occasioned partly by the... | |
 | Arthur comte de Gobineau - 1853 - 1040 pages
...l'arrivée des nations du Nord. Sur tous les points de cette grande société bookseller's inanuscript catalogue marked the price of the four books of Confucius, including the commentary at a price rather under liul) et rrown. The cheapness of their common litteratur is occasioned partly by thc mode of printing,... | |
 | Joseph Arthur comte de Gobineau - 1856 - 566 pages
...elements of knowledge, reading and writing.1 The 1 John F. Davis, The Chinett. London, 1840, p. 274. "Three or four volumes of any ordinary work of the octavo size and sbape, may be had for a sum equivalent to two shillings. A Canton bookseller's manuscript catalogue... | |
 | Sir John Francis Davis - China - 1857 - 442 pages
...popular works of the country are greatly cheaper than ours ; they have no taxes on literature, and three or four volumes of any ordinary work, of the...Books of Confucius, including the Commentary, at a sum rather under half-a-crown. The cheapness of their common literature is occasioned partly by the... | |
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