Numismatic Literature，Wáng, Yún Wu, Wang Yun Wu Great Dictionary (Wáng yún wu dà cí dian), Shanghai, 1932, Commercial Press (Shangwù Yìnshuguan), 1384 pages, hardcover, original printing, this is the personal Chinese dictionary of Howard Bowker, ex. H. F. Bowker Numismatic Library. Howard Franklin Bowker (1889-1970) was a numismatist and philatelist, collecting and specializing in Chinese coins, stamps and banknotes. He created the first bibliography of Western language publications on East Asian numismatics. Wang Yun-wu (1888-1979) was born in Shanghai and was a famous Chinese scholar of history and political science, he was also a politician and invented Shih Chiao Hao Ma, a method of Chinese lexicography also sometimes referred to as the Four Corner Method while he was the editor in chief at The Commercial Press, one of the oldest book enterprises in China.
