Script (Illustrated Collector's Edition)

Author: Jiang Qingbai et al.
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Publishing 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. It strives to reflect the new style and level of our country's edition research. Of course, some people are afraid that this format may lack uniformity and may result in 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 orderly as a textbook. The editors recall what they read when they first entered the field of ancient books edition. There were Zhang Zhidong's Catalogue of Books Answered, Ye Dehui's Clear Talk in the Book Forest, Sun Yuxiu's Study on the Origin of Chinese Woodblock Printing, Ye Changchi's Poems on Book Collecting, as well as bibliographies and prefaces from various authors. It can be said to be a wide variety of books, not constrained by a single format or framework. But they managed to learn the art of edition. With ten or so volumes in this series, some repetition in the content is not a problem. For example, some say Mao Jin's Jigu Ge should be classified as family-engraved, while others argue it should be categorized as shop-engraved. Each author writes from their own perspective, with different insights. A bit of diversity is more interesting than a single approach.