The content of the book is outstanding. The KangXi is one of the key early Chinese dictionaries, and has a large store of characters. Many are now quite obscure, but the genius of the Chinese at inventing characters for ideas is unparalleled in the history of the world.All other versions of the KangXi I know of are entirely in Chinese, so this is very handy for non-Asians.The quality of the book, paper, binding, etc. is excellent.On the negative side, the pages of the book are enlarged photocopies of the original book, which is printed in a fairly small format. The quality of the photocopies and/or the copy of the book they made them from isn't great. The english text is generally readable, but the characters, especially the complicated ones, can be murky.This book is in 2 volumes. That isn't always clear from the book information.