[Rarebooks] FS: Scarce 19th Cent. book of Japanese poetry

[Norman Kane]

We offer this scarce Anglo-Japanese work of Japanese poetry:

>DICKINS, F. V.
>. . . HYAK NIN IS'SHIU, or stanzas by a century of poets, being Japanese 
>lyrical odes translated into
>English with . . . text in  Japanese and Roman characters . . .  London: 
>Smith, Elder 1866.  1st edn.
>Pp. ix,52,[1],xviii,xv,[1],[6],[1],19-1.  Orig pictorial cloth, lettered 
>and decorated in gilt. a.e.g., light rubbing at extremities of spine, name 
>and address of former owner on brown end paper, and thus quite 
>inconspicuous, otherwise a bright copy.  Index, errata, Appendix, Notes. 
>(Odes from seven to eleven hunded years or more past "written in the old 
>Yamato language, free from any intermixture of Chinese derivatives, a very 
>noble and harmonious tongue...")   $625.00
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