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Description
A book explaining the origins and growth of the American China Trade, with the emphasis on the personalities of the men whose fortunes were made in the Far East, using an extraordinary collection of photographs of art and artifacts of the time.
Credits
Designer: Lucy Bitzer
Production managers: Patricia Couvaris, Gene Walker
Authors: Alfred Tamarin, Shirley Glubok
Size: 9.25 x 6.25 inches
Pages: 208
Quantity printed: first printing of 9,700
Price: $10.00
Typefaces: Text in 11/15 Linotype Janson, Display in foundry Janson, Photo-Typositor Snell Roundhand
Typesetters: Vail-Ballou Press, Jo Electro
Printer: Halliday Lithograph
Printing methods: Text: offset; Black/white illustrations: halftone by offset, Jacket: 4-color process
Jacket printer: Capper/Rugby
Papers: Finch Opake Book, 70 lb. white vellum, Jacket: 80 lb. white coated stock with film lamination
Paper manufacturer: Finch, Pruyn
Paper supplies: Baldwin Paper Company
Binder: Halliday Lithograph
Binding materials: Kennett green #57600 (spine), made by Joanna Western Mill Company,; Multicolor Antique dove gray (sides), made by Process Materials Corporation; on 85 pt. pasted board
Binding methods: Smyth sewn, round back, All-purpose foil gold on spine and simultaneous blind stamp on front cover
Endpapers: Multicolor textured caribe green
Endpaper manufacturer: Process Materials Corporation
Endpaper supplies: Lindenmeyr Paper Corporation
Publisher: Viking Press
