Glue and lacquer
Subtitle: four cautionary tales
By: translated from the Chinese by Harold Acton & Lee Yi-hsieh. Preface by Arthur Waley. With illustrations from drawings by Eric Gill interpreted on copper by Denis Tegetmeier.
Contributors: Acton, Harold Mario Mitchell, 1904-; Li, Yixie.
Publisher: The Golden Cockerell Press
Published: 1941
Place of publication: [London]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 139
Subjects: Tales -- China.
Other titles: Xing shi heng yan.
Notes: Title in Chinese on cover.
"Limited to 350 copies."
"These four stories are from a collection called Hsing shih hêng yen ... They were published in 1627 by a certain Fêng Mêng-lung ... Fêng Mêng-lung figures as the 'editor' of the series. This means that he collected and arranged already-existing stories."--Pref.
Title in Chinese on cover.
Table of contents: title: The mandarin-duck girdle.; title: Brother or bride?; title: The pre-destined couple.; title: Love in a junk.