[Rarebooks] OFFER: RARE WHOLLY ETCHED TOKYO GUIDE.

[Laderman]

TOKYO MEISHO ANNAI / SECOND. [SECOND ANNUAL ISSUE] [GUIDE TO 
TOKYO].  Tokio-Shorin / Kinseido- Hakko. Meiji 27, [1884]. About 12mo 
size, 124 Pp. The book is bound in chromolithographed, pictorial 
heavy boards, cloth backstrip. Except for the title page and over 
leaf, and the last 4 pages of text which are printed in Japanese 
characters on light orange paper, the book is wholly etched, Dec. 
EPs. The pages are arranged as in a Japanese woodblock book. Each 
sheet of paper is folded over, and printed on one side only. The 
etched pages include about 100 pages in which the top half of the 
page is a pictorial view of a Japanese neighborhood or scene. These 
are also etched. There are also 2 FP etched views.  In Japan, the 
vogue for entirely etched books lasted for less than ten years. Books 
of this type include a guide to Japan as a whole, one to Europe and 
another to the Americas. Although meant primarily for Japanese, each 
illustration is identified in English in Roman characters. These 
include Shinagawa, Tanagawa, Nitabashi, Konodai [at that time only a 
beautiful view], Suisaki bentencho [a secondary Yoshiwara district 
scene clearly from above showing all the houses, and a church!], a FP 
etching of a 4 story Meiji era, and style  building with people in 
the foreground and overleaf a FP etching of a Russian Orthodox Church 
in Tokyo, with no captions. Very Good. $750.00

The perfect purchase for a collector of world wide or Far Eastern 
Guides. It is very rare. No copies reported in the West in OCLC, 
COPAC, KVK, and only 3 in the Japanese union catalog of scholarly 
libraries. And it does include enough roman letter words so that 
European language speakers can follow the intentions of the text.

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