[JAPAN] Well-known raw silk producers and their trade marks, Empire of Japan: Compiled for the Louisiana Purchase Exposition, 1904, published by The Japan Sericultural Association, Tokyo, 1904. An important illustrated directory of Japanese silk manufacturers engaged in export trade, published to mark the St Louis World’s Fair in the United States, held from 30 April to 1 December 1904. For each of the 144 manufacturers, the book features a label illustrated by chromolithography and various details: location, date of foundation, production and export volumes (cover torn and detached, some corners creased). In-4°.