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XIONG JIE (late 13th-c.) and XIONG GANGDA (late 13th-c), editors. Xinbian yindian xingli qunshu jujie [Newly Compiled Collected Works and Nature and Principle, with Pronunciation Guide and Sentence-by-Sentence Information]. [Seoul, Korea: Royal Government Publications Office, after 1434-1450].
A rare example of Korean Kabin-ja printing, predating Gutenberg. While Gutenberg is independently credited with its invention, printing with movable metal type was first discovered in Korea half a century earlier. The systematic production of typographical editions was refined at the beginning of the 15th century under the third and fourth kings of the Yi Dynasty, when it formed part of their program to ensure that Koreans were well read in the great literature of classical China. King T'aejong established a Bureau of Type-casting charged with the casting of type and printing of typographical editions for distribution to government officials and scholars. T'aejong's type was followed by a second metal type, called Kyongja-Ja, ordered by Sejong in 1420. It was smaller, neater, and had a flat heel which better facilitated setting in the form. Its small size, however, was also a disadvantage, and in 1434 Sejong ordered a third, larger fount to be cast: Kabin-ja. Considered the finest of the early types, it is based on Chinese Ming calligraphy in the style of Madam Wei. Early Korean typographical editions were printed in small numbers, usually in 100 to 300 copies only, for distribution to an elite of government officials and scholars. The present text is from a collection of the Confucian teachings of the great Chinese philosophers, compiled by Xiong Jie and Xiong Gangda in the 13th century. This copy is from the collection of Melvin P. McGovern, an American authority on Korean printing.
Volume 14 of 46, folio (330 x 206mm). 13 sheets of Korean paper, printed on one side only, 10 columns of 18 characters to the page, single line border, double black fishtail folding guide (all leaves expertly strengthened, losses to corners occasionally affecting characters, browned, dampstained). Modern five-hole stitched binding in traditional Korean style, in modern Korean-style Paulownia wood box. Provenance: Ishimura So (signature on final leaf) – Yi Sang-ui (Korean book dealer) – Melvin P. McGovern (c. 1968, a collector and scholar of early Korean printing) – Bloomsbury, 5 April 2008, lot 28 – The Helmut N. Friedlaender Collection.
Kim Won Yong, Early Movable Type in Korea, volume 1 (Seoul: Eul-yu, 1954), pl. 2b (this copy).
A rare example of Korean Kabin-ja printing, predating Gutenberg. While Gutenberg is independently credited with its invention, printing with movable metal type was first discovered in Korea half a century earlier. The systematic production of typographical editions was refined at the beginning of the 15th century under the third and fourth kings of the Yi Dynasty, when it formed part of their program to ensure that Koreans were well read in the great literature of classical China. King T'aejong established a Bureau of Type-casting charged with the casting of type and printing of typographical editions for distribution to government officials and scholars. T'aejong's type was followed by a second metal type, called Kyongja-Ja, ordered by Sejong in 1420. It was smaller, neater, and had a flat heel which better facilitated setting in the form. Its small size, however, was also a disadvantage, and in 1434 Sejong ordered a third, larger fount to be cast: Kabin-ja. Considered the finest of the early types, it is based on Chinese Ming calligraphy in the style of Madam Wei. Early Korean typographical editions were printed in small numbers, usually in 100 to 300 copies only, for distribution to an elite of government officials and scholars. The present text is from a collection of the Confucian teachings of the great Chinese philosophers, compiled by Xiong Jie and Xiong Gangda in the 13th century. This copy is from the collection of Melvin P. McGovern, an American authority on Korean printing.
Volume 14 of 46, folio (330 x 206mm). 13 sheets of Korean paper, printed on one side only, 10 columns of 18 characters to the page, single line border, double black fishtail folding guide (all leaves expertly strengthened, losses to corners occasionally affecting characters, browned, dampstained). Modern five-hole stitched binding in traditional Korean style, in modern Korean-style Paulownia wood box. Provenance: Ishimura So (signature on final leaf) – Yi Sang-ui (Korean book dealer) – Melvin P. McGovern (c. 1968, a collector and scholar of early Korean printing) – Bloomsbury, 5 April 2008, lot 28 – The Helmut N. Friedlaender Collection.
Kim Won Yong, Early Movable Type in Korea, volume 1 (Seoul: Eul-yu, 1954), pl. 2b (this copy).