[FREEMAN-MITFORD, ALGERNON BERTRAM] Lord Redesdale.

Tales of old Japan.

London: Macmillan and Co., 1908. Second edition, later reprint, 12mo, pp. xii, 383, [4, ads]; frontispiece, illustrations; original red cloth, spine gilt; spine a bit faded, else about very good. Freeman-Mitford was the first Lord Redesdale and may be most famous as the paternal grandfather of the famous Mitford sisters. He was sent to Japan as a diplomat and "there he met Ernest Satow and wrote Tales of Old Japan (1871) - a book credited with making such classical Japanese tales as the "Forty-seven Ronin" first known to a wide Western public (see wikipedia[.]org/wiki/A.B._Mitford). Item #30440

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