36. Dickins (Frederick V., translator ) Chiushingura; or , the Loyal League. A Japanese Romance, woodblocks printed in blue and black, 1880 § M. (A.) Ayame-San, a Japanese Romance of the 23rd Year of Meiji, photographic illustrations by W.K.Burton, original cloth-backed pictorial boards with cords, n.d. § Takenobu (Y.) Classical Tales of Old Japan, folding colour woodblock frontispiece, original pictorial wrappers with cords, upper cover creased, Tokyo, 1898 § Valla (Alene) The Secret Diary of Lady Takayama, tipped-in colour woodblock, original boards with illustration mounted on upper cover, Kyoto, 1960 § Onoto Watanna. A Japanese Nightingale, illustrated by Genjiro Yeto, New York & London, 1901, plates and illustrations, some colour, the first and last original pictorial cloth, most a little rubbed ; and 9 others, similar, 8vo & 4to (14)
est. £200 – £300