JAPAN, ALBUM OF PHOTOGRAPHS IN FINE LACQUER BINDING. [1890S]

Oblong folio (350 x 265mm.), 58 hand-tinted albumen prints (approximately from 88 x 131mm., to 200 x 256mm., or the reverse), mounted on thick card, recto only, card on guards, contemporary black morocco-backed lacquered covers, upper cover with stylised view of Mount Fuiji and three Japanese cranes, lower cover with bird and flowers, gilt edges, housed in folding cloth box

Condition is described in the main body of the catalogue, where appropriate.
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A fine collection of portraits and landscapes with neat hand-colouring. See: Bennett, Terry. Old Japanese Photographs, 2006, pp.157-160