OGAWA, KAZUMASA Illustrations of Japanese Life . Yokohama: Kelly and Walsh, [n.d. circa 1892]. Japanese style binding of brocade cloth inset with colored woodcut illustrations on silk inlaid to covers, all edges gilt, purple tassels, gold speckled endpapers. 14 1/4 x 10 1/2 inches (37 x 27 cm); with 2 pp. text and 97 hand-colored collotype plates. Some thumbsoiling within and rubbing to cloth, overall a fine copy of a rare photographically illustrated work on Japan, this issue is distinguished from the later issues in several parts but plate counts do vary in this work. C
OGAWA, KAZUMASA Illustrations of Japanese Life . Yokohama: Kelly and Walsh, [n.d. circa 1892]. Japanese style binding of brocade cloth inset with colored woodcut illustrations on silk inlaid to covers, all edges gilt, purple tassels, gold speckled endpapers. 14 1/4 x 10 1/2 inches (37 x 27 cm); with 2 pp. text and 97 hand-colored collotype plates. Some thumbsoiling within and rubbing to cloth, overall a fine copy of a rare photographically illustrated work on Japan, this issue is distinguished from the later issues in several parts but plate counts do vary in this work. C
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