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; π
10 A-T
4 (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)