Choix de Fables de La Fontaine: Illustrees par un Groupe des Meilleurs Artistes de Tokio (Volume 1)

Jean de La Fontaine; Pierre Barboutau

Tokyo : Imprimerie de Tsoukidji-Tokio, 1894

Premier Tome only.  Japanese stab binding.  First print published under the direction of P. Barboutau of this illustrated edition.  One of 350 copies printed on Japanese paper, titles within decorative frame, text illustrations and double-page colored woodblock prints with text interspersed, signed, by the Japanese artists Kadji-Ta Han-Ko, Kawa-hub Kiyo-Soui, Oka-Koura Shiou-, Kano Tomo- and Eda Sada-Shiko [Metzner/Raabe/Bodemann 373.1; Carteret IV, 228]