Whose is the first woodcut overprint book in the world?

After China invented woodblock printing in Tang Dynasty, it was constantly improved and developed. In the Yuan Dynasty (A.D.14th century), a new engraving printing technology-overprint appeared. Mixed color printing is to print several different colors on a piece of paper. There are two methods: one is to paint several colors on a plate and print it at one time; The other is to carve a plate in one color and print it one by one. The borders of several plates must be exactly the same, so this method is commonly called "registration".

At first, Zhu Mo only had two-color overprinter, and later it developed into three-color, four-color and even five-color overprinter. Color printing in Yuan Dynasty was not widely used, and few color printing products were handed down. The Notes on the Diamond Sutra Without Monks, which was carved by Zifu Temple in Zhongxing Road (now Jiangling, Hubei Province) in the 6th year of Yuan Dynasty (A.D. 1340), was discovered in the 1940s and is the earliest known color printing copy. It is overprinted in black ink, with red words and black notes. The map of Ganoderma lucidum in the frontispiece is also from Zhu Mo. This Diamond Sutra was originally stored in Nanjing Library, and now it is stored in Taiwan Province Province.

After the Ming Dynasty, color printing was widely used. In the Ming Dynasty, some famous bookstores engaged in craft printing appeared, such as Ling's Bookstore and Min's Bookstore (now in Xing Wu, Zhejiang), which engraved many books on craft printing, and were famous for their "Ling Engraving" and "Min Engraving".