Author: Tameto Abe.
Title: [Eigaku shokei nanatsu iroha].
Description: Tokyo : Harimaya Kiemon, 1867 (Keio 3). 18x12cm publisher's wrapper with title label (midly used); 18 double folded leaves (ie 36pp). Signs of use, an ink smudge across one leaf; still rather good. ¶ A neat manual for learning to write the English alphabet - it is specifically English rather than generic western - which is read western style: it opens right to left.

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