影印《四库全书》是民国政界、出版界、图书馆界的一桩公案。从1920年应法国总理班乐卫倡议，总统徐世昌首次正式下令翻印《四库全书》，到1935年最终印成《四库全书珍本初集》，这一过程十分曲折。在分批出版后，《珍本初集》即被国民政府分赠诸国。目前国内外学术界日益重视作为物质的书籍在不同时空中的流通与传播，本文即着眼于《四库全书》的物质性，重点考察了其作为国礼在民国时期的翻印出版及对外赠送过程。

It is a big question to photocopy Si Ku Quan Shu(SKQS) during the Republic of China which led to many arguments among the government, presses and libraries. In 1920, President Xu Shichang gave an order to reproduce the SKQS, according to the initiative of former French Prime Minister Paul Painlevé. It has a long and complex story until the First Edition of the Rare Books of SKQS was published by the Commercial Press in 1935. Part of these books were sent to foreign governments as national gifts by the Kuomingtang government. This makes the scholars at home and abroad pay more attention to the circulation of books as material goods. This article reconstructs the photocopying and the process of circulation of this book and emphasizes its new identity as the national gift.