Hildreth's Japan As It Was And Is A Handbook of Old Japan. Edited, with supplementary notes, by Ernest W. Clement. Introduction by Wm. Elliot Griffis

Item #7856 Hildreth's "Japan As It Was And Is" Ernest W. Clement.

Hildreth's "Japan As It Was And Is" A Handbook of Old Japan. Edited, with supplementary notes, by Ernest W. Clement. Introduction by Wm. Elliot Griffis.

Clement, Ernest W. (ed.)

London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co Ltd, 1907. 8vo. 2 volumes, set. First edition thus. First published in 1855 and written by Richard Hildreth. Original decorated green cloth, gilt. Top edges gilt. With 100 illustrations and maps. Spines a bit dulled. Extremities slightly rubbed. Bookplate of University of London to each front pastedown and other small ink stamps indicating withdrawal from that depository on prelims. Contents clean. Very good. Item #7856

A revised edition of one of the earliest Western histories of Japan.