JAPAN


BRINKLEY (FRANK) Japan Described and Illustrated by the Japanese, 10 vol., 60 matted hand-coloured albumen prints and 200 smaller hand-coloured albumen prints in text, 10 colour collotype photographs of flowers by Ogawa, 10 mounted examples of Japanese art, one window-mount torn, library bookplates, blindstamps on titles, traces of label on rear endpaper, shelfmark on verso of title, inkstamp on top edge of text block, and paper spine labels, publisher's Japanese-style brocaded silk over boards, extremities lightly rubbed, folio (380 x 300mm.), Boston, J.B. Millet, 1897
|Brinkley moved to Japan in 1867 and founded an English language newspaper, the Japan Mail, later becoming the Tokyo correspondent for The Times, reporting on the Russo-Japanese War.Provenance: City Library of Manchester, New Hampshire.