Hau Kiou choaan
Subtitle: or, The pleasing history
By: A Translation from the Chinese language. To which are added, I. The argument or story of a Chinese play, II. A collection of Chinese proverbs, and III. Fragments of Chinese poetry. With notes.
Contributors: Percy, Thomas, 1729-1811.; Wilkinson, James, d. 1736.
Publisher: Printed for R. and J. Dodsley
Published: 1761
Place of publication: London
Language: eng; chi
Subjects: Proverbs, Chinese; Chinese poetry -- Translations into English; English poetry -- Translations from Chinese
Other titles: Pleasing history.
Work titles: Hao ch'iu chuan.
Notes: "The author of this translation is not certainly known. The manuscript was found among the papers of a gentleman named Wilkinson, who occasionally resided much at Canton, and was a student of Chinese. The date of the papers, 1719, was the last year he spent in China; and he died in 1736.  The three first volumes were in English and the fourth in Portuguese. Dr. Percy ... translated the last volume into English, and edited thework."--Wylie, A. Notes on Chinese lit. 1867, p. xxiii.

Bibliography: v. 1, p. xxix-xxxi.