The Lacquer Screen

Penguin Books Ltd, Harmondsworth, Middlesex, England Penguin Books Australia Ltd, Ringwood, Victoria, Australia

First published in the U.S.A. 1962 Published in Great Britain by William Heinemann 1964 Copyright © Robert van Gulik, 1962

Made and printed in the Netherlands by N. V. Drukkerij Bosch, Utrecht Set in Monotype Times

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