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Title: Japanese Children. 4 loose double-page texts and 10 loose numbered double-page color woodblock plates.
Description: Tokyo, Toyoda, um 1896. A rare and lovely book with colorful illustrations. The plates show: a girl reading and a boy writing; girls playing battledore and shuttlecock; boys flying kites; the Doll`s Festival; children playing kotoro-kotoro in Ueno Park; boys on bamboo stilts; boys in a procession; children playing in a stream; boys wrestling (sumo); youthful warriors on march. The text pages describes the child`s games and scenes very detailed. - Binding somewhat browned, edges and plates in the margins partley foxing, else a fine copy. 4 loose double-page texts and 10 loose numbered double-page color woodblock plates. Gr.-8°, original cardboard with colored cover illustration, gold speckled endpapers and colored publisher`s label.

Keywords: Japan, Kinderbücher, Kinderspiele


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