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Early Reprint, probably 1911, of the original 1908 edition. Hard cover, 8vo, in olive green cloth covered boards printed with decorative Japanese garden scene in darker green, the titles blocked in gold to the front board and spine. Top edge gilt, frontispiece color chromolithograph with labeled tissue guard, and with additional 49 full page color plates (complete), 249 pp. plus 2 pp. publisher's ads for the Beautiful Books on Flowers and Garden series, plus additionally numbered 8 page catalogue for other A.& C. Black series, Title page in black with bonsai vignette printed in green at publisher's logo. Printed by R & R Clark, Edinburgh. CONDITION: Very Good. Exterior with minor areas of rubbing to boards, one worn corner, light foxing to text block fore-edge. Inside, the front hinge has been repaired (rear hinge is in order) pages are clean and bright and binding square. No writing.** Largely self-trained British ARTIST Ella du Cane (1874-1943) provided the watercolor sketches for this, as well as several other titles for the popular A &C Black Travel book series. The fifty full page images of temple gardens, hanging in flowering wisteria, or laden with blossoming cherries, is a westerner's view of the subject. with some of the text modeled on the earlier work of another western observer of Japan, Josiah Conder, and specifically his title, "Landscape Gardening in Japan" (1893). Publishers Adam and Charles Black, continued to supply the British public's fascination with the exotic beauty of Japanese art and culture begun in the Victorian age. Du Cane credits Yone Noguchi, (or Noguchi Yonejiro, 1875-1947 Japanese writer, poet, and sculptor) with the flower fairytales and legends within. He was famously the first Japanese writer to be simultaneously published in English. [See our further Noguchi item No. 8696.] Inman No. 48.
Ref: ACBK 9164
$140.00