Illustrated Edition (Illustrated Collector's Edition)

Author: Xue Bing
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Publication Date: 2002-12-01
Features: This series of books is written in various specialized volumes, including Song edition, Yuan edition, Ming edition, Qing engraved edition, ancient books of ethnic minorities, shop-engraved edition, family-engraved edition, movable-type edition, illustrated edition, and new literature edition, etc., striving to reflect the new style and level of our country's edition research. Of course, some people may worry that this format might lack uniformity and lead to repetition. The editors believe there is no need to worry. The format is generally unified, but it is neither possible nor necessary to be as neatly organized as a textbook. The editors recall what they read when they first entered the field of ancient books edition, including Zhang Zhidong's Catalogue of Books Answered, Ye Dehui's Chu Lin Qing Hua, Sun Yuxiu's A Study of the Origin of Chinese Woodblock Printing, Ye Changchi's Poems on Collecting Books, as well as bibliographies and prefaces from various authors. It can be said that the books were diverse, yet they were not confined to a single format or framework. Nevertheless, they managed to master the art of edition studies. With ten or so specialized volumes in this series, some repetition in content is not a problem. For example, some may classify Mao Jin's Jigu Ge as a family-engraved edition, while others may consider it a shop-engraved edition. Each author writes from their own perspective, with different insights, which is why a bit of diversity is more interesting than a monotonous approach.