古籍辨伪--美国国会图书馆藏书所见

Identifying Imitations of Ancient Books——from the Library of Congress Collection

美国国会图书馆是除中国本土外收藏中文书籍最多的图书馆。自明代以来,坊估逐利,作伪欺人,手法繁多,至今尤甚。本文仅就美国国会图书馆藏书所见,分七类辨其作伪情况,归纳出其十六种作伪手法,以对当今古籍鉴定稍有裨益。

The collection of Chinese books in the Library of Congress USA(LC)is known to be thelargest in the world outside of China.Since the Ming Dynasty,booksellers have been nakingcounterfeits using a variety of techniques for increasing profits.and recently this practice hasbecome more prevalent.This artiele discusses this historical phenomenon in seven categories,including sixteen lypes of methods of fraudulence,in order 1o serve as a reference for today'sidentification of ancicnt books.