Description: Hardcover, 31.5 x 25 cm, yellow cloth adorned with stylized lettering and coloured design elements, blue endpapers, all margins red; Errata slip tipped in p.1. Lacks dust jacket. Inset: newspaper clipping titled “Facsimile of the fan distributed after the Tien-Tsin Massacre“.

Title-page: Fans of Japan | BY | CHARLOTTE M. SALWEY | née BIRCH | WITH INTRODUCTION BY | WILLIAM ANDERSON, F.R.C.S. | LATE OF H. M’S. LEGATION, JAPAN | AND | WITH TEN FULL-PAGE COLOURED PLATES, AND THIRTY-NINE | ILLUSTRATIONS IN BLACK AND WHITE | {publisher’s device} | LONDON | KEGAN PAUL, TRENCH, TRÜBNER & CO. L^TD | PATERNOSTER HOUSE, CHARRING CROSS ROAD | 1894 ||

Pagination: [i-vi] vii-xix [xx] [1] 2-148 [4]; total 172 pages.

Collation: 4to; π¹⁰ A-T⁴ (total 86 leaves) plus 10 colour plates with tissue guards and 39 b/w in-text illustrations. Plate I pasted in a kind of matt, though with red margins as all other pages.

Printer: Ballantyne, Hanson and Co.

Chromo-lithographer: McLagan and Cumming (Edinburgh)

Publisher: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co.

Charles Kegan Paul (British, 1828 – 1902) – publisher.

Author: Charlotte Maria Salwey [née Birch] (British, b. 1847 – after 1919).

Introduction: William Anderson (British, 1842 – 1900)

Dedicatee: Dr. Samuel Birch (British, 1813 – 1885)