미국 프린스턴대학교 도서관 소장 한국고서의 서지적 분석

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This paper provides a detailed examination of the Korean rare books in the Princeton University, identifying all 80 titles in 442 volumes the great part of the collection is included in Gest Collections. The Gest Collections began his personal interest, but now show the distribution of publication in the early 20th century. Also through such methods as assessing the ownership stamp in each volume, the back ground and provenance of the rare books were inferenced. The particular significance of each item was described through bibliographical notes, then the materials were analized by topic and type of printing. The most prevalent portion of Korean rare books owned by Princeton university fall into the category of literature, 45% of the total. Aside from that history 30 titles in 138 volumes (37.5%), and sciences and arts 7 titles in 19 volumes, classics 7 titles in 35 volumes. The result of the analized by type of printing, 40 titles in 304 volumes are woodblock printed books, and 20 titles in 73 volumes are metal type (new lead type), 7 titles in 28 volumes are wooden movable type printed books. 5 titles in 8 volumes are handwritten books, and 3 titles in 8 volumes are lithographs.

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