 It was completed in 1408, but never printed, as the imperial treasury had run out of money.The "Qinding Gujin Tushu Jicheng" (Imperially approved synthesis of books and illustrations past and present) is by far the largest "leishu" ever printed, containing 100 million characters and 852,408 pages.It was compiled by a team of scholars led by Chen Menglei, and printed between 1726 and 1728, during the Qing dynasty.