英語自由自在 [Eigo jiyujizai] = English with freedom [cover title]. [Edited by Jyokichi Aida]

Osaka: Isaburo Hamamoto, 1886. 12mo, pp. 4, 59, [1]; illustrated throughout; a fusion of western and Japanese book styles, with pages folded and bound fukuro style with the folds facing the fore-edge, but reinforced in each leaf with wastepaper to replicate western paper, and paginated western style, encased in cloth backed blue paper boards with a western illustration printed in brown on upper cover, marbled edges; small adhesion mark on upper cover, one small section of the first page (alphabet) where once was an ownership stamp neatly excised, inscription on lower pastedown blacked out, otherwise a good copy, without a printed title, as issued. English vocabulary and conversation book for the Japanese student, with pronunciation and meaning in kanji and katakana. Not found in OCLC. Item #26957

Price: $275.00