WALDO BROWNE, George. Japan. The Place and the People
Boston, Dana Estes & Company, 1901.
£ 200
FIRST EDITION. 4to. Coloured frontispiece plate, title-page, 4 leaves (introduction, contents and list of illustrations) and 438 pages. With over three hundred coloured plates and half-tones, the full-page ones with tissue paper guards. Autograph of owner on verso of front free endpaper, dated “Christmas 1908”. Generally fine, just some very light age yellowing. half leather binding with buckram over boards, hinges and corners worn. Gilt tooling to spine and front cover. A good copy.