A Practical Introduction to the Study of Japanese Writing by Basil Hall Chamberlain

Paperback / softback. New.

Hardback. New.

Crosby Lockwood & Son Ltd.. Good with no dust jacket. 1905. Second Edition. Hardcover. Second edition. Good hardcover with clean pages and no dust jacket. Minor shelf wear and fraying to edges and corners of cloth covers and spine. Moderate staining to covers and spine. Previous owner wrote name in English and Japanese on the front endpage. There is a possible ink mark on the front endpage (black on black paper). Endpages, leaf ends and pages are yellowed with age. Minor ink spots on the leaf ends. Binding feels loose from the cover, but no pages are missing and binding is otherwise tight. Front endpage has a few creases. ; MOJI NO SHIRUBE; 12.20 x 9.25 x 2.00 inches .

Crosby Lockwood & Son London & Kelly & Walsh Ltd Hong Kong 1905. 32.0 x 22.0cms, 550pp, very good hardback with rebound bounds (the original front cover has been pasted the sound new boards) The headings are: on some grammatical peculiarities of the witten language; preliminary exercise in the Hiragana syllabary; 400 of the commonest Chinese characters arranged as writing lessons; on the structure of Chinese characters; a tale of the good old days;' more about the Kana; proper names; advertisements & newspaper clippings; easy pieces by contemporary authors; odds & endsl the epistolary style. 3 indexes.

London.: Crosby Lockwood.. 2nd Edition revised.. 1905.. Profusely illustrated with examples of Chinese characters, viii + 547pp + [3]pp, appendix, indices, 30.2 x 23.5cm. Occasional spotting and light browning, occasional neat pencilling, neat signature of a prior owner front free endpaper, ink stain gutter of one page and in three places on lower cover. Recased original boards worn at corners, modern spine with portions of original backstrip laid down. .

London: Sampson Low, Marston & Co. Ltd, , 1899. First Edition. New half calf (dark blue) with corresponding buckram cloth. Gilt titles to spine. New end papers. Text and Japanese characters throughout. Ex library, but the rebinding has resulted in very few library marks remaining. A lovely copy of this work. The binding is immaculate (it was finished last week!). Inside, the first 4 leaves have moderate foxing to them. The rest of the book is clean and tidy, with just a little darkening to the edges. Library marks are limited to a stamp to the verso of the title pages, then small discreet stamps to the top of page 1, and the bottom of page 480. Tape residue to the last page (list of author's other works). [vi], 1-480, [vi]. pp. Chamberlain was one of the foremost Japanologists active in the Nineteenth Century. He wrote some of the earliest translations of haiku into English. During his tenure at the Tokyo Imperial University, he sent many Japanese artifacts to the Pitt Rivers Museum at Oxford.

Sampson, Low, Marston, & Co, LD, 1899. Hardcover. Fair/No Jacket. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. 1899 edition. Book has original boards, lacking spine. Page edges are toned, a little edge chipping, signatures are loose, but book is complete.

London/Yokohama et al: Kelly & Walsh. 1905. 2nd ed. small folio, 550 pages, very good+, some wear to covers; Strong binding, contents very nice, small dig on rear cover. .

London:: Sampson Low, Marston, & Co.,. Very Good. 1899. Hardcover. First edition. Quarto, rebound into sturdy burgundy buckram, black label with gilt lettering on the spine. Previous owner's name on front free endpaper, brief notation on verso of front free endpaper, occasional foxing on endpages and title page, else very good. Binding is solid. ; 482 pages .