BRINKLEY, Capt. FRANK. Oriental Series. Japan (--China). Its History Arts and Literature. Boston and Tokyo: J.B. Millet Company [1901-1902]. 15 vols., 8vo, purple crushed levant morocco, each cover gilt-panelled with a broad border containing six large ornaments of onlaid calf flowers in red and white against a gilt-dotted ground, the center panel with a large shaped circle "pie crust" center ornament of onlaid citron calf gilt, corner ornaments of onlaid citron and white calf gilt in the shape of fans; spines in six compartments with five raised bands, gilt-lettered in two compartments an alternating pie crust and fan ornament in the rest; turn-ins gilt, citron crushed levant morocco doublures with gilt fan corner ornaments, doublures of yellow embroidered silk damask, endpages of double-page oriental silk with a total of 30 paintings of birds, insects or native scenes, t.e.g., others uncut, upper inner joint of vol. I cracked and the silk parted. LIMITED EDITION, "Special Ex Libris, Monogram and Extra Illustrated Copy. Printed, decorated, and bound for [without subscriber's name]", watercolor drawings in the margins, mounted watercolor paintings on silk, other illustrations. (15)

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BRINKLEY, Capt. FRANK. Oriental Series. Japan (--China). Its History Arts and Literature. Boston and Tokyo: J.B. Millet Company [1901-1902]. 15 vols., 8vo, purple crushed levant morocco, each cover gilt-panelled with a broad border containing six large ornaments of onlaid calf flowers in red and white against a gilt-dotted ground, the center panel with a large shaped circle "pie crust" center ornament of onlaid citron calf gilt, corner ornaments of onlaid citron and white calf gilt in the shape of fans; spines in six compartments with five raised bands, gilt-lettered in two compartments an alternating pie crust and fan ornament in the rest; turn-ins gilt, citron crushed levant morocco doublures with gilt fan corner ornaments, doublures of yellow embroidered silk damask, endpages of double-page oriental silk with a total of 30 paintings of birds, insects or native scenes, t.e.g., others uncut, upper inner joint of vol. I cracked and the silk parted. LIMITED EDITION, "Special Ex Libris, Monogram and Extra Illustrated Copy. Printed, decorated, and bound for [without subscriber's name]", watercolor drawings in the margins, mounted watercolor paintings on silk, other illustrations. (15)