Author: BRINKLEY, FRANK (Ed.):
Title: Japan Described and Illustrated by the Japanese. Written by Eminent Japanese Authorities and Scholars. Ten volumes. Boston, J.B. Millet Co., 1897-8.
Description: . A complete set of this Tokyo edition, limited to 500 copies (no. 351). Folio. Pp. 382, ten hand-coloured collotype frontispieces of flowers, thirty mounted hand-coloured album photographs (accompanied by leaves with descriptive text), five more coloured flower plates and fifteen woodcut-printed plates. Numerous illustrations in the text. Bound in the Japanese style, original half cloth bindings, title leaves on upper boards (two with small loss), gold sprinkled end papers. Bindings rubbed, a few volumes with loss of fabric on upper board.A comprehensive and informative work on Japan at the turn of the 20th century. The volumes are divided into specific topics covering customs, history, festivals, sites, etc. The beautiful photographs are taken by K. Tamamura and the collotype flower plates by Kazumasa Ogawa. (Ref. Bennett p. 18). Frank Brinkley was an Anglo-Irish officer in the Royal Artillery who came to Japan in 1867 and stayed there for more than forty years. He became the owner and editor of the English-language newspaper Japan Mail (Japan Times). Brinkley organised and translated the contributions by Japanese scholars to this work. A few minor marginal tears in a couple of the volumes, otherwise internally in very good condition. A heavy set.

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