First published in 1881, The Six Scripts; or, The Principles of Chinese Writing was an English translation by L. C. Hopkins (1854–1952) of Tai T'ung's Liu Shu Ku. Following Hopkins' death, a facsimile of the original translation was printed in 1954 by the Cambridge University Press, together with a memoir of the translator's life by W. Perceval Yetts and corrections and additions to the text. It is that version which is reissued here.
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Memoirs of the translator W. Perceval Yetts; Facsimile of The Six Scripts, 1881; Corrections and additions; Specimen page of the first edition of Liu shu ku (circa A.D. 1320) in the National Library of Peking.
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