Japan
Subtitle: described and illustrated by the Japanese : written by eminent Japanese authorities and scholars
By: ed. by Captain F. Brinkley ... with an essay on Japanese art by Kakuzo Okakura
Series: Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Photography; Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Photography
Publisher: J. B. Millet
Published: 1897
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 382
Subjects: Art; History; Social life and customs
Notes: Issued in 15 sections, with illustrated half-titles not included in the numbered leaves. Leaves printed on one side only, alternate rectos and versos.

The photographs, mounted, are preceded by guard sheets with descriptive letterpress.

"The collotype prints of Japanese flowers are made in Tokyo by K. Ogawa. The xylograph prints, illustrating the lecture on Japanese art by K. Okakura ... are printed in Tokyo by the Kokkwa publishing company. The photographs are all made and colored by hand in Japan ... The silk bindings with tassels and cords for the ten sections were woven to order in Kyoto by S. Iida."--Introd. by Arthur J. Mundy.

Reproduction of the original from the University of Georgia Libraries.