TABI NO TSUREZURE FOR THE ENNUI OF TRAVELLERS by [JAPAN] EASTLAKE, Delano, M. D - 1903

Tokyo: Sheibisha, 1903. First Edition. Wraps. Both covers and title and contents page detached as only the center string survives. Contents Near Fine but for the title page which has some soiling and chipping. Tanaka Kinsen. String-tied silk-covered flexible pictorial wraps. Designated as a "Quarterly Publication" on the title page, the front cover states that this is the First Number: Autumn. Illustrated with 9 color plates printed on one side only, one folding, by Tanaka Kinsen and others. Includes extensive railroad time tables at the end. According to the preface, this book "does not pretend to be a Guide Book, or to contain anything especially new but a discription [sic] of some of the beauties of Japan, and above all, a practical aid to the traveller, whether he be foreign or native.