地方文献《广州大典》印数探微

On the Print Run of the Complete Library of Canton

《广州大典》的版权页上注明印数为500套,表面上看印数并不大,但这是一项规模较大的地方政府重修地方丛书工作,从2005年启动到2017年还未完成整套丛书的整理出版工作。如何理解这500套的印数?文章从不同角度进行了考量:编辑出版的成本较高;消费群体有限;增加濒危文献的复本量;探求复合出版、复合阅读;推动古籍文献纸质载体的传承与保护研究。

The print run of the Complete Library of Canton is clearly stated on its copyright page,which is500.This seems to be a small number.On the other hand,it takes enormous efforts for the local government to compile such a large series of local literature,and the compilation,starting from2005,is still far from being finished in2017.Therefore,such a print run is worth thinking.The article considers different factors:the high cost of editing and publishing,limited consumer groups,increasing the quantity of endangered literature,exploring compound publishing and compound reading,and promoting the inheritance and protection of paper of ancient books.