Collector profile / 人物档案
- Names / 字号
- 字良士，号铁琴道人
- Studio / 藏室
- Tieqin Tongjian Lou 铁琴铜剑楼
- Activity centers
- 常熟、上海
- Role
- 藏书家、图书馆事业推动者
Collecting focus / 主要收藏
Song–Ming rare books, family library, and local historical documents
Representative holdings / 代表收藏
Rare Song–Ming editions preserved by the Tieqin Tongjian Lou lineage; 8,000 volumes donated to establish the Changshu county library in 1915.
Research significance
A fourth-generation guardian of one of China’s great private libraries, Qu protected its books in wartime and advanced their transition into public collections.
Public legacy / 公共影响
1915年捐书八千册并主持创办常熟县立图书馆；其遗命推动瞿氏后人将铁琴铜剑楼善本分批捐归公共机构。