A collection of Chinese proverbs

Translated and arranged by William Scarborough, Wesleyan Missionary, Hankow. With an introduction, notes, and copious index. Shanghai : American Presbyterian Mission Press, 1875. Octavo, lettered yellow cards, cloth spine (heavily worn, creased, mouse nibbling to lower corner), pp. xxxvi; 478. Text in English and Chinese. Scarce.

‘William Scarborough was a Wesleyan Methodict minister and missionary in China, born on 21 January 1841 at Barrow, Barton-upon-Humber. He was appointed, along with David Hill, to Hankow (Hankou), China in 1864. He returned to England in 1885 because of his health and was appointed Chairman of the Whitby and Darlington District in 1891. His mastery of Chinese language and literature found expression in his Collection of Chinese Proverbs (1875; revised and enlarged by C.W. Allan, Shanghai, 1926). He died in Darlington on 16 September 1894.’ – Dictionary of Methodism in Britain and Ireland https://dmbi.online/index.php?do=app.entry&id=2411

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