Dickins frederick v translation (2 risultati)

Hardcover. Condizione: Very good condition. New Edition. Quarto. xiii (i), (2) 202 (2)pp., 29 [1] plates. Bound in dark blue leather with gilt framing on covers, gilt lettering, ruling and tooling and raised bands on spine. Gilt dentelles and textured decorative endpapers. Japanese and English lettering on title page. Illustrated head and endpieces. Elaborate decorative initials. Translation of this Japanese romance by the naval surgeon and Orientals Frederick Victor Dickins. Japan's most famous historical legend recounting the true 18th-century Ako incident of 47 samurai sacrificing their lives to avenge the death of their disgraced feudal lord. With notes and an appendix containing a metrical version of the Ballad of Takasago and a specimen of the original text in the Japanese character. Illustrated with twenty-nine blue and black colored woodblock prints, drawn and executed by Japanese artists, and printed on Japanese paper, containing descriptors in Japanese and captions in English. The plate "The Device of Kudaiu," listed to face page 81, is bound in facing page 112, here with Japanese script only. Binding with light wear along edges, small chips, and joints of spine with some scuffing. Previous owner's signature on front free endpaper. Block lightly age-toned. In 1880 Allen & Co. printed a variant edition with only 24 plates of illustrations.…

Condizione: Very Good. 8vo (6 3/8 x 9 3/8 in - 16 x 23.7 cm), 1886, beige paper slip cover type outer wrap with black lettering and Japanese flag in red and three Japanese characters in red, French text, black and white frontispiece of Japanese written characters, black and white plate with Japanese written characters at the front between the "Note" and the Preface, 29 wood block plates in black, blue and gray, 4 black and white woodblock plates with Japanese Hirakan writing ("Specimens de text original") at the back, 224 pp. All plates (6 black and white and 29 color) are on paper with flakes of silver. This is a French language translation by Dousdebès of the 1875 translation by Dickins which was titled "Chiushingura, The Loyal League," the tale of 47 Ronins.~ Condition. The book is in Very Good condition. The covers have soiling and the spine is darkened. There are two signatures and writing on the short title page. Internally clean and the woodblock prints are bright. Some creasing along the bottom margin of several pages. All plates are present per the listing of illustrations at the back. Unstated Japanese Artists (illustratore).…