Scenes from the life of Buddha reproduced from paintings by Keichyu Yamada by Yamada, Keichyu - 1898

Chicago: Open Court, 1898. Slender hardcover, eight tissue-guarded leaves with color reproductions of paintings, preceded by two pages of text. Front cover has some abrasions at right edge one third of the way up from the bottom. Edges gilt. Front endpaper has an interesting gift inscription signed A.M.B. (Alfred M. Bender), in which he refers to the unnamed recipient as "The King of Oriental Art," and which is followed by a blessing in Hebrew (the benediction that begins "May God bless you and keep you..."). Bender, a San Francisco book collector and donor of Asian art to local museums, was an early American patron of Diego Rivera and financed the publication of Ansel Adams' first portfolio.