Francis Brinkley

A finely bound, extra illustrated edition of Captain Frank Brinkley's Oriental Series: China and Japan.

• Sold as a set of 15 volumes.
• Captain Francis Brinkley (Irish).
• Boston and Tokyo: J.B. Millet Co., 1901-02.
• Approximately 220 extra illustrations, many of them original watercolors on silk, other colored photographic plates and numerous other illustrations; many of the blank margins of the text decorated with original watercolor scenes.
• Bound in full red morocco, swirling gilt foliage borders incorporating stylized flowers of onlaid white green and purple morocco gilt surrounding large gilt oval central panels in which are depicted three white lillies with green leaves of onlaid gilt morocco, the upper doublures set with Fifteen watercolors of birds, all signed and lacquered, the lower doublures of plain green morocco, green watered silk endpapers woven with a stylized foliage design, printed on Japanese vellum.