Unbeaten Tracks In Japan by Bird, Isabella L - (1992)

Norwalk, Conn.: The Easton Press, (1992). Collector's Edition. Fine in full dark brown leather covered boards with five compartments on the spine with gilt text and decorations. All edges of the text block are gilt. The end sheets are of silk and there is a matching silk placement ribbon sewn-in at the head of the spine. An octavo of 8 1/2 by 5 1/2 inches. Without a dust jacket as issued. "An account of Travels on Horseback in the Interior Including Visits to the Aborigines of Yezo and the Srines of Nikko and Ise with maps and Illustrations." (from the title page of volume I) The two original volumes are contained within one in this edition. Volume I consists of 407 pages. Volume II contains 392 pages including an index and appendices. Illustrated with two frontispieces, drawings and maps. One of the volumes in The Easton Press' collection of Library of Travel Classics which is no longer published and sold by The Easton Press. A very handsome, tight, clean copy with no prior owner's names, dates, notations or book plates.