Citation/reference: A catalog of books on China : being the Chinese part of the library of the late Rev. Prof. J. Legge ...
Ownership: Originally collected and owned by James Legge. Two years after his death in 1897, his library was put up for sale in London by Luzac & Co.. Purchased by Wilberforce Eames, a librarian with the New York Public Library, and sold to the library in 1909.
Funding: National Endowment for the Humanities Project to Catalog, Preserve, and Digitize Chinese Rare Books, 2008/2010
