序知本末:《广州大典》中的蒙书序文

Analysis on the Prefaces of Children’s Readings in the Complete Library of Canton

《广州大典》收录了民国前广州地区蒙书序文61篇,这些序文包含丰富的作者信息、编纂信息、书目和版本信息,为研究广州启蒙教育和图书出版的发展提供了资料。文章分析《广州大典》蒙书序文的内容特色,通过典型案例探讨蒙书序文蕴含的文献价值和史料价值。

The Complete Library of Canton collected 61 prefaces of children’s readings in Guangzhou area.These prefaces,which were written during the Ming and Qing dynasties,contains a lot of information,such as author’s information,compilation information,bibliographic information and so on.This paper analyses the content features of those prefaces,and explores the documentary value and historical material value contained in the prefaces of children’s readings.