This edition of "Break of Day" has been meticulously planned by Francoise Gilot and Ben Shiff, featuring dimensions of 9" x 11" with wide margins around the elegant type pages. The type, set by Michael and Winifred Bixler of Boston, uses Bembo type, known as "the loveliest roman of them all," with a reputation dating back nearly five centuries. The Bembo type is presented in a generous sixteen-point size with four points of leading-space between lines. Printed by Daniel Keleher at the Wild Carrot Press in Hadley, Mass., the text and single-color illustrations are produced on a new blue-gray letterpress stock specially made for this edition at the Mohawk Paper Mills in Cohoes, N.Y. This paper choice is significant to the overall design concept, as Colette, the author, wrote her manuscripts on blue paper. The brilliant silk-screen illustrations, created from Gilot stencils, each for one of the six colors, were produced at the Studio Heinrici in New York City on mold-made Arches paper imported from France. The book is bound by Robert Burlen & Son of Hingham, Mass., using pongee silk woven in China's Honan province, dyed deep blue to match the color of the silk-screens.