Title
Tangshi sanbaishou (唐詩三百首). Produced by the Yangzhou Guangling Guji Keyinshe. 2 vols.
Coverage
Nanjing:
Publisher
Jiangsu guji chubanshe,
Date
1998.
Subject
No. 243 of 300 copies. Gift of Xia Wei and Soren Edgren.
Description
These replicas of clay, ceramic, wooden, tin, and bronze sorts of movable type help illustrate its early invention in East Asia. According to Shen Kuo’s Dream Pool Essays, in the mid-11th century, Bi Sheng carved individual characters into pieces of clay that were fired to hardness. Inspired by this history, Wang Zhen later created a font of more than 30,000 sorts of hand-carved wood type at the end of the 13th century. From the late 15th century, the Chinese cast types from bronze, tin, and lead.
Source
From the collection of Rare Book School