新见《望溪集》初刊本及其价值考论

A Study on the Newly Discovered First Edition of Wangxi Ji and Its Value

新发现《望溪集》初刊本是方苞晚年手定的善本。该本现藏于南京图书馆,收文260篇,最大特点是汇集了同时期147位评点者的350余条近2万字批语。它不仅揭示了方苞在世时的文坛地位及评价,而且深化了方苞义法理论体系,还补充了方苞及清初的独家文献史料,对方苞、桐城派以及清初文坛研究有重要的学术意义。

The newly discovered first edition of Wangxi Ji is a rare edition made by Fang Bao in his later years.This book with 260 articles is now stored in Nanjing Library.The most important feature is that it has collected more than 350 comments of nearly 20000 words from 147 reviewers at that time.It not only reveals Fang Bao's status and evaluation in the literary world when he was alive,but also deepens Fang Bao's theoretical system of Yi-Fa,and supplements the exclusive historical documents about Fang Bao and the early Qing Dynasty,which is of great academic significance to the study of Fang Bao,Tongcheng School and the literary world of the early Qing Dynasty.