[Sketch Tour Book] Starr, Frederick — Sany? Angya T?Kaid? Angya ???? ?????

1919. [Sketch Tour Book] Starr, Frederick Sany? Angya T?kaid? Angya ???? ?????. Bunen'd? ???, publisher Taish? 8 [1919] [Sketch Tour Book] Starr, Frederick. Sany? Angya T?kaid? Angya ???? ?????. Tokyo: Bunen'd? ???, Taish? 8 [1919]. 6th printing (the first printing appeared in 1917). Small 8vo. 18 x 10.5cm, woodblock printed paper over flexible boards. Includes 27 b+w full page woodcuts, many textual ills. 7 photo plates and a total of 11 full page color woodblock plates by Akamatsu Rinsaku ???? (1878-1953), Noda Ky?h? ???? (1879-1971), Hata Tsuneharu ? ??(1883-? ), Mizushima Nih? (or Nihofu) ?????(1884-1958) and Nagai Hy?sai ???? (1882-1945). Those 5 artists had earlier in 1917 collaborated on Bunen'd?'s ambitious Hanshin Meish? Zue ?????. Nakazawa Hiromitsu and others were also involved with Starr's work, which is a compilation of travel articles on Central Japan originally done for the Osaka Asahi newspaper. [For more information, refer to Scott Johnson's article in ANDON 37, p. 30] This copy is very good in a rubbed original slipcase, which is illustrated with color woodcut. Unusual in any event, particularly so in such nice condition. .