"Although Weng Fang-kang's works were published in the Tao-kuang period, a very small number were printed." Shen Shu-yung, the famous Tung-chih period (1862-1875) expert on bronze and stone inscriptions, wrote an article in which he says he could only buy one of these books after trying hard for four years. So we can see that this work was already very rare in the Ching dynasty.
「翁方綱文集雖然是道光年間的刻本，但當時印量很少」，沈津指出，同治年間的金石名家沈樹鏞有文章說到，他留心搜訪了四年，才購得一本，可見在清代就已極少見。