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A Bibliographic Study on the GyeokmongYogyeol First Edition and Extant Edition

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1숭의여자대학교

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This study examines GyeokmongYogyeol, presumed to be the first printed book, and looks into the 27 types of woodblock-printed editions of Gyeokmong Yogyeol extant in Korea in the following order of historical research: compilation background and composition; publication and circulation; the system of editions; and the time of publication of the extant edition. GyeokmongYogyeol comprises of the writer's introduction, 10 chapters of text and the 2 volumes of the appendix “Jae-ui-cho” written in December 1577 in the 10th year of King Seonjo’s reign. The publication and distribution trend after the first publication in the 10th year of Seonjo(1577) is roughly divided into three stages: the publication and time of dissemination of the government edition 관판; the time the village/town edition 방판 and the reprint copy appeared; and the appearance of the modern commercial print copy and circulation. The systems of editions are categorized as the block book, the metal print book, and others. The books which were restored once their time of publication was estimated are the Samcheokbu Lee Seong Ghee(李聖基) edition from the 9th year of Hyojong (1658), the Ghee Yong Sooboh edition from the 3rd year of Yeongjo (1727), the Young Yanghyeon revised and published edition from the 25th year of Gojong (1888), the Song Byeongseon edition of 1901, the newly published Yong Hadong edition of the 6th year of Gwangmu (1902), and the newly published Sangseo Yongam edition of 1917 among others. The existing editions of GyeokmongYogyeol have been systemized by time period and pieced together. The printing type began with fifteen-character nine-line editions, then was circulated as eighteen-character nine-line editions after the Hwanghae Gamyeong edition(1629), diversified after the publication of Yulgokseonsaengjeonseo with such types as the twenty-character eleven-line edition which would reduce production cost and the twenty-character ten-line edition which was printed by jaejujeonglija, and was followed by the publication of the Shinyeon printed edition after the time of enlightenment. The ending of the word was heug-eomi for the early version and changed into flower-pattered word endings with the shape of 2-3 leaves as with the passing of the Japanese Invasion of Korea in 1592. In the block books aside from printed book, 2-leaved flower-pattered word ending became the mainstream.

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