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Rh experience with rare editions. For that reason his notes have been widely studied by collectors and students of bibliography. About half a century after Huang died a fellow townsman,, with the help of Miao Ch'uan-sun (see under ), collected Huang's bibliographical notes on 352 books. These were printed in 1883 under the title, 士禮居藏書題䟦記 Shih-li chü ts'ang-shu t'i-pa chi, 6 chüan. Later, Miao collected more of Huang's notes of which a part, entitled Shih-li chü ts'ang-shu t'i-pa hsü-lu (續錄), was printed in 1896 by Chiang Piao 江標 in the Ling-chien ko ts'ung-shu (see under ); and another part, entitled Shih-li chü ts'ang-shu t'i-pa tsai-hsü chi (再續記), 2 chüan, was printed in the first series of the Ku-hsüeh hui-k'an (see under ). In 1919 Miao brought together the three collections and printed them, with further additions, under the title 蕘圃藏書題識 Jao-p'u ts'ang-shu t'i-chih, 10 chüan, including a collection of Huang's prefaces and postscripts to twenty-seven of the books he printed, entitled Jao-p'u k'o (刻) shu t'i-chih. In 1933 there appeared a supplement containing yet other annotations which were collected and printed by Wang Ta-lung 王大隆 under the title Jao-p'u ts'ang-shu t'i-chih hsü-lu, 4 chüan, including miscellaneous examples of Huang's prose and verse, entitled Jao-p'u tsa-chu (雜著).

In later life Huang P'ei-lieh was more and more pressed financially, and therefore was obliged to part with most of his rare books. These were gradually purchased by his fellow-townsman, Wang Shih-chung 汪士鐘, whose library was known as the I-yün ching (shu-) shê 藝芸精(書)舍. In the middle of the nineteenth century, however, the latter's library was in turn dispersed, passing for the most part to Ch'ü Yung (see under ), and. In the meantime Huang P'ei-lieh helped in the compilation of the Su-chou fu-chih of 1824 (see under ). Early in 1825 he opened at Soochow a bookstore called P'ang-hsi yüan 滂喜園, but as he died the following September, it is not known how long the business was carried on. A son named Huang Shou-fêng 黃壽鳳, was a famous seal carver. In 1860, when the Taiping army entered Soochow, twelve of Huang's descendants took their lives by drowning in a pond in front of the family cemetery.

Huang P'ei-lieh numbered among his friends such scholars as, and. His friendship with Ku Kuang-ch'i was severed about 1820, although he had patronized the latter for many years. Another of his friends was Wu Ch'ien 吳騫, a bibliophile and poet of Hai-ning, Chekiang, who possessed a large library. Wu was the editor of the collectanea, 拜經樓叢書 Pai-ching lou ts'ung-shu of more than thirty titles printed about the period 1780–1812. It includes a collection of his own works in prose, entitled 愚谷文存 Yü-ku wên-ts'un, 14 chüan (printed in 1807), and two collections of his poems, entitled Pai-ching lou shih-chi (詩集, printed in 1803), and Pai-ching lou shih-chi hsü-pien (續編, printed in 1812). Wu also left a collection of colophons about rare books, entitled Pai-ching lou ts'ang-shu t'i-pa chi (藏書題跋記), 5 + 1 chüan, edited and printed in 1847 by. When Wu Ch'ien heard, in 1804, that Huang P'ei-lieh had named his studio Po-Sung i-ch'an, he wrote a poem informing Huang that he himself had modestly named his studio Ch'ien Yüan shih-chia 千元十駕, meaning that though he could not, like Huang, boast a hundred Sung editions his thousand Yüan editions might conceivably match them, just as ten weak horses might counterbalance a strong one.

[Chiang Piao, 黃蕘圃年譜 Huang Jao-p'u nien-p'u (1897); Wang Ta-lung, Huang Jao-p'u nien-p'u pu (補) in 蘇州圖書館館刊 vol. I, no. 1, (1929); 2/72/32b;, Tu-hsüeh lu ssŭ-kao (四稿) 5/1a; Yeh Ch'ang-ch'ih, Ts'ang-shu chi-shih shih (see under ) 5/62a, 63b, 64b; Yeh Tê-hui, 郋園讀書志 Hsi-yuan tu-shu chih 4/27a; Wu-hsien chih (1933) 69上/32b, 40/35b; Fan K'ai 范鍇, 華笑廎隨筆 Hua-hsiao ch'ing sui-pi 3/2a.]

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 HUANG P'êng-nien 黃彭年, July 18, 1823–1891, Jan. 13, scholar and official, was a native of Kuei-chu, Kweichow, to which place his family migrated from Li-ling, Hunan. His father, Huang Fu-ch'ên 黃輔辰, was a chin-shih of 1835 who rose in his official career to intendant (1866) of the Fêng-Pin Circuit 鳳邠道, Shensi. His uncle, Huang Fu-hsiang 黃輔相, a chin-shih of 1845, died at his post in Kwangsi  341