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Design Category
Book design, 1974
Art director
Betty Anderson
Collection
(1975) Fifty Books of the Year

Description

The rhythm of life and its organic vision, an idea poetically implied by Lao Tsu, is brought to perfect expression in the writings oh Chuang Tsu. This book contains the seven “Inner Chapters”—that part of his work acknowledged by scholars as having definitely been written by him.

Credits
Designer: Clint Anglin
Photographer: Jane English
Calligrapher: Gia-Fu Feng
Production managers: Terence Kelly, Ellen McNeilly
Translators: Gia-Fu Feng, Jane English
Size: 8.5 x 11 inches
Pages: 176
Quantity printed: edition of 3,000
Price: $7.95
Typeface: Monotype Centaur, 14/15, with display in Monotype centaur
Typesetter: R.R. Donnelley & Sons Company
Printer: Halliday Lithograph Corporation
Printing method: sheet fed offset
Jacket printer: The Chaucer Press, Inc.
Paper: Michigan Matte (Plainwell), 80 lb., White
Paper supplies: Baldwin Paper Company, Inc.
Binder: Halliday
Binding materials: bound in Joanna Kennett (spine) and Elephant Hide Buff (sides) supplied by Lindenmeyr Paper Corporation, on 95 of binder’s board
Binding method: Adhesive bound, square back
Endpapers: Multicolor (Process Materials) Jet
Endpaper supplies: Lindenmeyr
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. (New York, New York)