FOUR JAPANESE AND ONE CHINESE CHILDREN'S CREPE PAPER BOOKS Meiji period, 1880s The first titled Pictures of A Hundred Eminent Japanese Ancient and Modern with Their Biographies Apanied by an English Translation made by G. Takahashi, 1887, 82 pages, featuring ten woodblock print diptychs by Kiyochika Kobayashi, Mizuno Toshikata, Gekko Ogata, Yoshu Chikanobu and Yoshimune Arai illustrating famous statesmen and women and other historical figures, text in English, Japanese and Chinese, with original paper cover, the second The Matsuyama Mirror by Hasegawa Takejiro, 1886, translated by T. H. James, with seven woodblock prints by Sensei Eitaku, the third Japanese Fairy Tales, featuring Bunbuku Chagama, Kachi-Kachi Yama, Shitakiri Suzume, Sarugani Gassen, Momotaro and Hanasakase Jiji, 1889, the fourth Japanese Fairy Tale Series, No.14 The Princes Fire-Flash & Fire-Fade, 1887, with illustrations by Sensei Eitaku, and the fifth The Rat's Plaint, translated from Chinese by Archibald Little, 1892 25cm high, 18cm wide; 18cm high, 12.5cm wide; 18.5cm high, 12cm wide; 15cm high, 10cm wide; 15.5cm high, 20.5cm wide (4) - PROVENANCE: John Macallan Swan (1846 – 1910) Collection of and thence by descent J.M. Swan received his artistic training in England and Paris, successfully working in various mediums. Member of the Royal Academy, the Dutch Water-Colour Society, he exhibited at the Parisian Academy since 1878, winning first-class gold medal for painting and sculpture in the Paris Exhibition in 1900. His painting Prodigal Son features in the collection of Tate Britain.