高承埏為著名明末嘉興地區藏書家，其所編刊《稽古堂群書秘簡》，共收二十一種，甚為罕見，其中以收藏《玄怪錄》十一卷善本，經程毅中整理，為人熟知。然其叢書所收尚有多種唐宋小說，未為人所重視。在故宮所藏舊平圖甲庫，另有一種《稽古堂叢刻》收十一種四十三卷，與《稽古堂群書秘簡》重疊，蓋出於不同時期的匯刻本。其中小說所涉之版本，若干種類與《顧氏文房小說》與《說郛》重疊，可據以考察該刻與當時叢書影響之情況，並透過文字比對衡定其所收版本之價值。

Gao Chengshan is a famous book collector in the late Ming Dynasty around Jiaxing area. He has edited a rare book “Jigutang qun qunshu mi jian”, included twenty one kinds of books. Among them, the “Xuan guai lu” compiled by Cheng Yizhong is well known. However, there are still many fictions in this series of books that have not yet been valued. Another version of the collection of the National Palace Museum in Taipei is called “Ji Gu Tang Cong ke”. This version contains eleven kinds and forty-three volumes. It is a series of books published in different periods, which are duplicated in the collection of “Jigutang qun qunshu mi jian” and “Shuo fu”. Some versions of these fictions overlap several types of “Gushi Wenfang xiaoshuo”. Based on these discussions, in addition to studying the cross-cutting effects of the compilation of the series in the late Ming Dynasty, the value of the version received was checked through text comparison.