Credits

Designers

Richard Ellis (general format), Cyrus LeRoy Baldridge (general format), Richard Ellis (cover)

Illustrator

Cyrus LeRoy Baldridge

Illustrations

water color and line engravings (printed in Similetone and in grey ink)

Author

Arthur Waley

Size

7 x 10.5 inches

Pages

xviii, 327

Price

$5.00

Typefaces

special cutting Monotype, Deepdene, 16 point, 2 point leaded (text), Weiss initials and Deepdene (title page), 28 x 43 picas

Compositor

The Haddon Craftsmen

Printer

The Haddon Craftsmen

Printing method

letterpress

Papers

Glatfelter Dragon wove, off-white antique jute, specially made to simulate Chinese paper, Bs. 70 (text), Hamilton Montgomery Offset laid, off-white antique, Bs. 80 (illustrations)

Binder

The Haddon Craftsmen

Binding

Smythe sewn, cloth-bound in Bancroft Natural Finish, flat backbone with board stiffener

Stamping

black foil (on front cover), black foil and genuine gold leaf (backbone)

Publisher

Alfred A. Knopf, Inc.