Japanese Children. 4 loose double-page texts and 10 loose numbered double-page color woodblock plates.

Tokyo, Toyoda, um 1896, 4 loose double-page texts and 10 loose numbered double-page color woodblock plates. Gr.-8°, original cardboard with colored cover illustration, gold speckled endpapers and colored publisher`s label.

A rare and lovely book with colorful illustrations. The plates show: a girl reading and a boy writing; girls playing battledore and shuttlecock; boys flying kites; the Doll`s Festival; children playing kotoro-kotoro in Ueno Park; boys on bamboo stilts; boys in a procession; children playing in a stream; boys wrestling (sumo); youthful warriors on march. The text pages describes the child`s games and scenes very detailed. - Binding somewhat browned, edges and plates in the margins partley foxing, else a fine copy.