ASHVAGOSHA, Awakening Of Faith, 1907, Presentation Copy, Buddhism, Theosophy

Asvaghosha. The Awakening of Faith in the Mahayana Doctrine: The New Buddhism. Translated into English by Timothy Richard. Shanghai: Christian Literature Society, 1907. Small octavo, publisher’s yellow cloth stamped in black, with woodcut frontispiece. Inscribed by translator Timothy Richard to Hamilton King, dated Shanghai, May 3, 1907. Offered with George S. Arundale, Under the Weather, Adyar: Theosophical Publishing House, 1943, small octavo in plum cloth. 2 vols.

Used, with light wear; small dark mark to front board of first volume; light edge wear and corners bumped; minor pencil notations to front flyleaf; second volume lightly faded with minor spine-end softening.