BAKUMATSU MAIJI TAISHO KAIKO HACHIJUNEN-SHI.
[History of Eighty Years Reflecting on the End of Edo, Meiji and Taisho Periods. Text in Japanese]. A large album made up of profusely illustrated issues of the journal whose title translates into English as given above. It includes Volumes 11-15, 17 and 18 (without Volume 16), with original wrappers for the seven journals bound together between patterned cloth covered boards, title in Japanese with image of a ship in gilt on upper cover, the cloth worn in places, particularly at edges, with an 11 cm. tear in upper hinge and with upper and lower joints weakening; the illustrations are collotypes with some full page colour plates; occasional light browning and foxing; Tokyo, 1937. *A fascinating insight into how Japanese history was recorded and described to the ordinary person in the period immediately prior to World War II. Item #154743
Price: $500.00