The Fountain illustrated by the best artists in Tokyo

• 2 volumes in-8, paperback in Chinese style (yamato-toji), (54) – (54) pp., ff. printed on the front and folded, silk cords (two at the top and two at the bottom, both crossed and tied at the front). 29 color compositions, including one repeated on the cover and 28 double-page inserts, engraved on wood and all bearing the artist's seal, numerous vignettes in t. drawn in black. Title pages in black and bistre. 

First edition, second printing (unjustified, published the same year as the luxury printing) of this famous work illustrated with 28 double-page color inset prints by Kajita Hanko, Kano Tomonobu, Okakura Shusui, Kawanabe Kyosui and Eda Mahiko, and numerous black vignettes in the text. Curious edition of La Fontaine's fables belonging to the genre of books on crepe paper published in Tokyo between 1885 and the beginning of the XNUMXth century for a local Western clientele, but also and above all for export.