Xinbian yindian xingli qunshu jujie [or] Sinp'yon umjum songni kunso kuhae.
Seoul, Korea: Royal Government Publications Office, 1434-1450]. One double-page bifolia (330 x 206 mm). The leaf printed 10 columns per page, 18 characters per column, double black fish-tail motifs, manuscript additions to margins. Condition: a few marginal puntures, uniformly darkened, light dampstain, slight wear. Provenance: two ownership stamps. rare example of early 'kabin-ja' printing one of the earliest form of printing with movable type. . In 1434, the Publications Office was ordered by the King to cast 200,000 pieces of copper movable type, which were named after the lunar year Kabin. This was the second set of movable coppper type produced during the Sejong period: the first set was cast in 1420, but according to the Yi Dynasty Annals, King Sejong was dissatisfied with its small size and ordered a larger font to be cast. The resulting Kabin-ja set of characters was so clear and exact that it was possible to print more than forty sheets per day. By repute it is the most beautiful font ever produced in Korea, and was honoured as 'the auspicious item of the nation' and 'the treasure of all ages of Korea' (see Zhang Xiumin Zhongguo yinshua shi [Shanghai: 1989] p.769). all early movable type books printed in korea are of great rarity.
Xinbian yindian xingli qunshu jujie [or] Sinp'yon umjum songni kunso kuhae.
Seoul, Korea: Royal Government Publications Office, 1434-1450]. One double-page bifolia (330 x 206 mm). The leaf printed 10 columns per page, 18 characters per column, double black fish-tail motifs, manuscript additions to margins. Condition: a few marginal puntures, uniformly darkened, light dampstain, slight wear. Provenance: two ownership stamps. rare example of early 'kabin-ja' printing one of the earliest form of printing with movable type. . In 1434, the Publications Office was ordered by the King to cast 200,000 pieces of copper movable type, which were named after the lunar year Kabin. This was the second set of movable coppper type produced during the Sejong period: the first set was cast in 1420, but according to the Yi Dynasty Annals, King Sejong was dissatisfied with its small size and ordered a larger font to be cast. The resulting Kabin-ja set of characters was so clear and exact that it was possible to print more than forty sheets per day. By repute it is the most beautiful font ever produced in Korea, and was honoured as 'the auspicious item of the nation' and 'the treasure of all ages of Korea' (see Zhang Xiumin Zhongguo yinshua shi [Shanghai: 1989] p.769). all early movable type books printed in korea are of great rarity.
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