Etudes sur la phonologie chinoise

First complete edition, constituting vol. 15 of the Archives d'études orientales published by J.-A. Lundell (9 copies recorded in the CCFr, including 1 in Lyon and 8 in Paris).

The work was originally a doctoral thesis defended in 1915, later expanded with supplements issued up until 1926.

Publisher’s binding in half blue cloth, smooth spine with minor rubbing, silver lettering on the spine, brown paper-covered boards, Chinese red ink stamps on the title and half-title leaves, corners bumped.

Some small angular paper losses on pp. 241, 243, and 707, without loss of text.

These studies on Chinese phonology comprise 4 parts: 1. Old Chinese. – 2. Descriptive phonetics of modern dialects. – 3. Historical studies. – 4. Dictionary; altogether 18 chapters.

A Swedish linguist, sinologist, and philologist, Bernhard Karlgren (1889–1978) lived in China from 1910 to 1912, which enabled him to study the various Chinese dialects; he later became professor of Asian languages at the University of Gothenburg.