HANDWRITTEN, TOO.
The most stupendous literary work ever compiled, and one which dwarfed by comparison our most elaborate dictionaries into a row of pamphlets, was the encyclopedia written to the order of Yung Lo, a Chinese Emperor of 500 years ago. It ran into over 12,000 written volumes, and at one time three complete sets were extant. Two wero destroyed in the seventeenth century, but the third survived in Pekin until the Boxer trouble in 1900.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20988, 26 September 1931, Page 6 (Supplement)
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