Watercolor drawings of Japanese dragonflies, 1900.

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Watercolor drawings of Japanese dragonflies, 1900.

Twenty nine leaves of watercolor drawings of Japanese dragonflies, identified in Japanese and by an unidentified Japanese artist, sent with a 4 p. letter to his publisher in Boston, Little, Brown and Company, dated Tokyo, 1900 Oct. 25. The drawings were meant to be included in A Japanese miscellany (Boston, 1901) and used to illustrate the chapter Folklore gleanings: Dragon-flies. Some were eventually published, though in black and white. With a suggested table of contents and a drawing of a toy Daruma.

35 leaves in case ; 23 cm.

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Little, Brown and Company, 1932, 1966, 1978

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Hearn, Lafcadio, 1850-1904

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Teacher at the government college at Kumato. From the description of Letters, 1893-1894. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 122442926 American author noted for his writings on Japan. From the description of Letter, 1883. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 367407866 Lafcadio Hearn (1850-1904), Victorian romantic writer, was born Patrick Lafcadio Hearn of Irish-Greek parentage. He emigrated to the U.S. in 1869 from Europe and in...