• Journal of the Korean Society for Library and Information Science
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• v.33 no.4
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• pp.17-27
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• 1999

The purpose of this these is aiming at making an investigation on the existing local publications which were including woodblock catalogs in the early Choson Dynasty and analysing the bibliographical matters. The overall findings of this study can be summarized as follows : First of all, publications contained in the woodblock catalogs are composed of 1292 titles. With the exclusion of 278 titles duplicated in Yongnamch' aekp'an-gi(221 titles) and Tong-gyongjapki(57 titles), there are one thousand fourteen titles in the woodblock catalogs in Kosach' waryo(989 titles) and Yongnamch' aekp'an-gi (25 titles). Secondly, publications which are included in woodblock catalog and being handed down to the present are composed of 160 titles. Excepting 43 titles which are duplicated in the woodblock catalogs containing Yongnamch' aekp'an-gi(33 titles) and Tong-gyongjapki(10 titles), there exist 117 titles. Thirdly, looking at the publications handed down to the present on the basis of location, 10 titles were published in five areas in Kangwon-do, 45 titles in 17 regions in Kyonsang-do, 33 titles in 10 areas in Cholla-do, 4 titles in 4 different areas in Chungchong-do two different areas in Pyongan-do, 1 titles in one area in Hamgyong-do, the other titles in three regions in Hwanghae-do.