[Wujun xianxian zongci 吳郡先賢總祠 rubbings] / Gu Yuan 顧沅, ed., and Kong Jiyao 孔繼堯, artist  

Rubbings from the stone tablets held at the Wujun xianxian zongci shrine in Suzhou. The tablets depict local worthies from earliest times to the authors' present and were to the extent possible based on true-to-life portraits. The stone tablets were preceded by a painted album with a more limited coverage. In 1829, a woodblock-printed book was also published that reproduced the images on the stones.

10 albums in sutra binding with wooden boards. Some boards loose. At least half a leaf missing in vol. 2. Minor worming.

Our vols. are currently not in any particular order.

See further Seunghyun Han, "Shrine, Images, and Power: The Worship of Former Worthies in Early Nineteenth-Century Suzhou," T'oung Pao, sec. ser., 95.1/3 (2009): 167-95.

With thanks to Gillian Zhang (BC).