William George Aston

What the record establishes about William George Aston.

William George Aston is recorded with the occupation translator. Burroughs Wellcome & Co, Private Letter Book 15 is dated September - December 1903 and held by Wellcome Collection. William George Aston is recorded with the citizenship of United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. Littérature japonaise / traduction de Henry-D. Davray. is dated 1902 and held by Wellcome Collection. Shinto, (the way of the gods) / by W.G. Aston. is dated 1905 and held by Wellcome Collection. William George Aston is recorded as linguist, diplomat, translator, writer and japanologist.

Wellcome Collection records 11 objects associated with this heading. A grammar of the Japanese spoken language is dated 1888. Open Library catalogues 8 works under this name.

Wikidata Query Service catalogues 1 work under this heading. Wellcome Collection catalogues 6 works under this heading. Open Library catalogues 8 works under this heading.

The identifiers under which William George Aston may be traced in institutional catalogues.

William George Aston is established in the international name authorities as Bibliothèque nationale de France 12252039b, Gemeinsame Normdatei (GND) 129892017, Library of Congress no92030904, Libraries Australia 815973, ISNI 0000000081562873, IdRef 03127336X, VIAF 76373301 and Wikidata Q1321244.

12 works under this name are catalogued by Wikidata Query Service, Open Library and Wellcome Collection. Their recorded dates run from 1888 to 1905.

A History of Japanese Literature. History of Japanese Literature by. Shinto (the Way of the Gods) (Illustrated). Shinto the Ancient Religion of Japan (Illustrated). Shinto : (the Way of the Gods). History of Japanese Literature. A Grammar of the Japanese Written Language, by W.G. Aston. Shinto. A grammar of the Japanese spoken language, dated 1888. Shinto, (the way of the gods) / by W.G. Aston., dated 1905, held by Wellcome Collection. Littérature japonaise / traduction de Henry-D. Davray., dated 1902, held by Wellcome Collection. Burroughs Wellcome & Co, Private Letter Book 15, dated September - December 1903, held by Wellcome Collection.

Work associated with this heading is recorded in 1 named public collection.

Wellcome Collection: 11 recorded objects, read from the institution's own published catalogue.

5 scholarly publications naming this subject were located in the registry of record.

Aston, William George, (1841–22 Nov. 1911), Who Was Who, 2007. Aston, William George (1841–1911), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, 2017. Aston, William George, Dictionary of Irish Biography, 2009. Aston, William George (1841–1911), diplomatist and Japanese and Korean scholar, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, 2004. Aston, A. William, Oxford Music Online, 2001.

1 digitised item associated with this heading is catalogued by Internet Archive.

A Grammar of the Japanese Written Language, by W.G. Aston (1904) — Internet Archive.

Bibliographic registers publish measured figures for this heading: 12 language editions of the general reference literature carrying an article (Wikimedia (language editions)). A count of publications is evidence of attention, not of standing, and is given here only as a measure.

This article draws on 4 independent source lineages. Copies and mirrors of the same underlying record were collapsed into a single witness, so 4 means 4 genuinely separate publishers of record. 13 further registers were consulted and returned nothing for this heading.