SET OF SIX BOOKS . FLORIAN (J.P. Claris de). Selected Fables, illustrated by Japanese artists under the direction of P. Barboutau, Tokyo. Paris: Marpon and Flammarion, n.d. (1896). 2 vols., in-8, Japanese-style paperback. Edition printed in Japan on crepe paper, illustrated with 28 double-page colour prints by various Japanese artists and black-and-white vignettes (see Primardeco, lot 92, 4.3.22). . A SKETCHBOOK OF JAPAN, by C. Wirgman, printed and published by R. Meiklejohn & Co., Yokohama, No. 26, undated, c. 1884. Bound between two wooden boards covered in brocaded silk. With the publisher’s label on the back cover. Unbound but complete with 40 plates, including the title page. (Damage to the front cover, wear to the silk). DIM. 20 X 26 CM (7 7/8 X 10 1/4 IN.) . SHOCKING IN JAPAN: On the Evolution of Art in the Land of the Rising Sun, by Fernand Ganesco, with illustrations by Georges Bigot, and a preface dated July 1895 in Yokohama. . A PICTORIAL MUSEUM of Japanese Manners & Customs, drawn by Japanese artists, printed at Yuseido, Tokyo, Japan, 1884. Soft cover, bound in the Japanese style. 39 pages of titled lithographs. . KA’UN-CHÔ, a series of lithographed sketches, dated Meiji 10 (1877), published in Meiji 42 (1909). (Signs of wear and soiling). Japan, Meiji period (1868–1912). SIX BOOKS WITH FLORIAN, WIRGMAN, BIGOT AND JAPANESE ARTISTS, JAPAN, MEIJI PERIOD. Note Charles Wirgman (1832–1891) arrived in Nagasaki, Japan, in 1861 as a correspondent for the *Illustrated London News*. He subsequently settled in Yokohama, where he lived until the end of his life. His sketches were published regularly in the British newspaper until around 1887. Georges Bigot (1860–1927) was a French painter who lived in Japan from 1882 to 1899, where he produced numerous sketchbooks and contributed to many Western and Japanese periodicals. He and Wirgman were particularly renowned for their satirical drawings.