Tales of old Japan

by Algernon Bertram Freeman-Mitford, Lord Redesdale

$35 · Offered by Rulon-Miller Books

London: Macmillan and Co., 1908. Second edition, later reprint, 12mo, pp. xii, 383, 4, ads ; frontispiece, illustrations; original red cloth, spine gilt; spine a bit faded, else about very good. Freeman-Mitford was the first Lord Redesdale and may be most famous as the paternal grandfather of the famous Mitford sisters. He was sent to Japan as a diplomat and there he met Ernest Satow and wrote Tales of Old Japan 1871 - a book credited with making such

• Printing: later

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