Sacred Books of the East, Comprising The Vedic Hymns, Zend-Avesta, Dhammapada, Upanishads, The Koran, and the Life of Buddha.
London/New York: The Colonial Press, 1900. Two black-and-white plates with captioned tissue-guards. Revised Edition. Publisher's blue cloth, bordered and titled in gilt, teg. 457pp. 9.5" x 6.5" Penciled owner's inscription front paste down, closed tear to frontispiece tissue guard, short closed tear p. 237, mild wear and rubbing extremities, overall still a very good to near fine copy. Item #238247
AN INTRODUCTION TO SACRED TEXTS
An accessible and abridged anthology of the vast breadth of sacred eastern texts. Wilson set out to compile a more approachable single-volume anthology, in contrast to Friedrich Max Müller's 50-volume intellectual exploration published by Oxford in the early twentieth-century. With his critical and biographical sketches, Wilson's edition, while abridged, will satisfy the introductory curiosities of any exploration into the sacred texts of the East.
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