Japanese Prints

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rELATEd BOOKS
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277. [JAPANESE ENAMELS]. BOWES, James. Japanese
Enamels With Illustrations from The Examples In The Bowes
collection. liverpool, Printed for Private Circulation, 1884.
together with notes On Shippo. A Sequel To Japanese Enamels.
Kegan, Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co. limited, 1895. £265
Small folios (280 x 194 mm.)The first work bound in the original
full dark blue gilt-lettered bevelled cloth, endpapers sympathetically
renewed, top edges gilt; x + [2], contents + 111 + [1]pp., advert, 20
plates of which 18 are either after drawings or photos and 2 are
chromolithograph plates, including frontis; a bright, clean copy. The
second work bound in quarter green linen over decorative papercovered
boards, top edges gilt; xii + 109 + [1]pp., 7 b/w plates and
numerous b/w text figures; a little worn at the extremities otherwise
a bright clean copy.
first editions.
278. BUXTON, L. H. Dudley. The Eastern road. london:
Kegan Paul, 1924. £75
8vo. Original cloth, gilt; pp. xii, 268; frontis., 18 photo. illusts.;
slight spotting, else very good.
first edition. This is a narrative of a journey taken in 1922 while
travelling on the Albert Kahn fellowship. Although the award
required Buxton to voyage throughout the world, Buxton dedicated
his travels exclusively to Japan and china. china was then in
turmoil, and Buxton records his impressions both at this time and
in the aftermath.