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Chapter 258 Just Say What You Want

"Then I really can't do anything about it. If you don't greet well, please bear with me." Boss Luo smiled and cupped his hands again.

In fact, he wished that the cream man would not buy it!Creamy Man is obviously an expert in ancient and rare books. How can he ask for a price when he points out so clearly?But if you can't make it clear that you don't want to sell it, that would be a joke.

It would be best for him to let go.

Although the creamy man pointed out the actual situation of this set of books, Boss Luo argued a few words at first, but the creamy man seemed to be just discussing the facts and didn't mind too much.

"Okay, forget it. I spent some time reading this set of books just now, and I haven't read some of them yet, so I'll go and read them again." After finishing speaking, the creamy man walked in again.

Yu Yao then also went to the innermost area.

Lin Fengcao is also here, reading a set of educational books from Zhonghua Book Company during the Republic of China period.

Yu Yao roughly scanned and found that the rare ancient books here are the Ming Dynasty's square engravings at the earliest, and there are also some reprinted Song engraved editions, the quality of which is worse than the set just now.Song block editions are too famous, and such things can't be fooled, just to sell them for a small profit.

The printed editions of the Qing Dynasty and reprints of the Republic of China accounted for the majority.Not bad for such a small shop.

Yu Yao was in a slump, but Lin Fengcao looked at it seriously, so he casually picked up a group of old photos from the Republic of China period.

There are a total of ten old photos in this group, reprinted in black and white, and made into a cover, with the words "Old Photos of Shanghai" printed.

This group of old photos reflects some scenes in Shanghai and Shanghai in the 40s. There are high-rise trams, the Bund Pier, parking lots where rickshaws and taxis gather, road workers working, ladies enjoying their time in teahouses, and folk Shops and stalls.

There is also a picture of a boy in shabby clothes eating at a square table full of hairy crabs.

In the 40s, prices in Shanghai skyrocketed, big merchants hoarded food, and poor families couldn't afford rice, so they could only eat hairy crabs to satisfy their hunger.

Times have changed, and today's hairy crabs are not the same as they were back then. There were many wild crabs and they were easy to catch.

After flipping through this group of old photos, Yu Yao flipped through a stack of advertisements from the period of the Republic of China next to him.

These advertising posters are indeed old things, old prints from the Republic of China period, mainly advertising tobacco and alcohol daily necessities.

There is an advertising picture of Cao Cao and Liu Bei with green plums cooking wine on heroes, and the name of this wine is actually "Han Dynasty cooking wine".

Yu Yao also found an advertising picture drawn by Zhou Muqiao for the British American Tobacco Company. The main picture is an ancient house scene, mainly women, and there is a month plate at the bottom. Only the lower left and right corners are the advertising signs of cigarette packs.

Zhou Muqiao was a painter in the late Qing Dynasty and the early Republic of China. He later settled in Shanghai and was good at meticulous painting. His paintings are still of certain value, but the printed advertising paintings are another matter.

Yu Yao flipped through more than a dozen advertisement posters, and suddenly found an ancient thread-bound book, which was not thick, and was sandwiched inside the advertisement posters.

Yu Yao picked it up, it was a volume in "Anthology".

"Wenxuan" is the earliest extant collection of poems and essays in China. It was compiled by Xiao Tong, the son of Emperor Liangwu in the Southern Dynasty. There are a total of sixty volumes on various subjects.Because Xiao Tong's posthumous title was "Zhaoming" after his death, it was also called "Selected Works of Zhaoming".

The volume that Yu Yao picked up contains volumes 34 to 35.

Since the Southern Dynasties, there have been many block editions of "Selected Works".The volume that Yu Yao picked up did not have an official year date engraved on it.

However, on one side of the title page of the book, there is a collection caption and a red seal.Zhu Yin's four-character seal is like a two-character name plus "collecting books"; Yu Yao is not familiar with this name, which is normal, and there are many people who can collect this book.

However, the inscription states that this is a "Jiaqutang engraved edition".

Jiaqutang is very famous.

With Yu Yao's eyesight, after reviewing and examining, from the white cotton paper used for printing the book, as well as the level of engraving and the degree of antiquity, after a comprehensive judgment, it can be completely determined that this is the Jiaqutang engraved edition of the Jiajing period of the Ming Dynasty!

This kind of engraved version of hall name is naturally not an official engraved edition.However, some hall names are owned by literati, with profound accumulation and exquisite engraving. They are not inferior to official engravings, and some even exceed the level of official engravings.

For example, this Jiaqutang.

In the Ming Dynasty, there was a famous book collector and engraver named Yuan Ji (jiong) from Suzhou.The Yuan family has a century-old history of collecting books, and has collected dozens of sets of "Wen Xuan" in various editions.Among them, the Southern Song Guangdu Pei's edition is the most excellent. This edition is a joint publication of two editions, involving six ministers of the Tang Dynasty who participated in the annotations and were also scholars, so it is also called "Selected Works Annotated by Six Officials".

Yuan Kui hired an engraver and spent 16 years re-engraving this set of Southern Song publications.

This set of engraved editions of Jiaqutang in the Ming Dynasty is also often referred to as "Selected Works of Six Schools".

The Jiaqutang engraved version of the Ming Dynasty was completely based on the Southern Song Guangdu Pei's publication.

From another perspective, it can be called a first-class high imitation.Therefore, some people in later generations took this set of engraved editions, removed the package number and the places with hall numbers, and sold them as engraved editions of the Southern Song Dynasty.

Qianlong was once "cheated".

In the history of printed editions of "Wenxuan", Pei's publication in Guangdu, Southern Song Dynasty is second to none, and it is rare and valuable.

As for Jiaqutang's engraved version of "Selected Works of Six Schools", although there are relatively many handed down, a complete set is rare, and the value is more than one million.If it is stamped with a royal or celebrity collection stamp, it will be more expensive.

It's a pity that there is only one volume here, and the first volume is not included. Although it can be worth 1 to [-] yuan, this Boss Luo must also know how to do it. Although I don't know why he missed it in the advertisement, but take it to ask the price. I guess there is nothing missing.

While Yu Yao was flipping through the book, the creamy man noticed it, and he slowly leaned over to read it, and finally leaned on Yu Yao.

Yu Yao smiled and stepped aside.

However, he took the opportunity to pick up the conversation, "Mr. Excuse me. Excuse me, where did you find this book? I've been looking in this store for two or three hours, but I still can't find it."

"Inside the poster." Yu Yao replied.

"Thank you!" The creamy man immediately flipped through the posters, including the surrounding area, but found nothing.

"You don't need to look through it, I guess it's just this one, if there are others, it's not easy to miss it." Seeing that he was very polite, Yu Yao added another sentence.

The cream man smiled and asked cautiously, "Are you sure you want this book?"

"You want it?" Yu Yao asked back.

"This..." the creamy man hesitated to speak.

He didn't say anything, and Yu Yao didn't answer, instead he looked at Lin Fengcao, who was comparing two books in his hand.

The creamy man hesitated again and again, and finally spoke, "I've collected more than 50 volumes of this engraved edition of this set of books, and there are only a few volumes left. Among them, the two volumes in the volume in your hand happen to be included."

"Isn't that what it is? You can say what you want!" Yu Yao smiled lightly.

(End of this chapter)