The Golden Lotus, Routledge & Kegan Paul
Filmotype Vigus and its outline variant, Unicorn Open, in use for titles and spine lettering of The Golden Lotus. This four-volume edition was published by Routledge & Kegan Paul (RKP) in 1972, based on the 1939 translation by Clement Egerton. From Wikipedia:
Jin Ping Mei (Chinese: 金瓶梅)—translated into English as The Plum in the Golden Vase or The Golden Lotus—is a Chinese novel of manners composed in vernacular Chinese during the latter half of the 16th century during the late Ming dynasty (1368–1644). Consisting of 100 chapters, it was published under the pseudonym Lanling Xiaoxiao Sheng (蘭陵笑笑生), “The Scoffing Scholar of Lanling,” but the only clue to the actual identity is that the author hailed from Lanling County in present-day Shandong. The novel circulated in manuscript as early as 1596, and may have undergone revision up to its first printed edition in 1610. The most widely read recension, edited and published with commentaries by Zhang Zhupo in 1695, deleted or rewrote passages to help understand the author’s intentions.
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