Lot no. 352
VERHAEREN (Émile). Japanese Images. [Tokyo], Takejiro Hasegawa, [between 1896 and 1901]. In-8° oblong, Japanese-style paperback, illustrated cover. First edition of six poems by Émile Verhaeren illustrated by Kwasson with fourteen double-page prints.
Our copy was published under the following address: "T. Hasegawa / 10 Hiyoshicho / Tokyo", the address where the printer lived from 1890 to 1901. The colophon, written in Japanese, bears the date 1896 ("year 29 of the Meiji era").
Cover slightly faded.
See original version (French) Auto-translation. Refer to original language for legal validity.
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Original bindings - Florent Rousseau, bookbinder - Modern illustrations
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