Momotaro. Сказки Момотаро. В двух переплетах. Japanese Fairy Tale Series. No 1. Little Peachling. No 2. Tongue-Cut Sparrow. No 3. Battle of the Monkey

Два тома в полукожаных владельческих переплетах.Под переплетом выполненные на рисовой бумаге цветные гравюры на дереве иллюстрирующие японские сказки 'Момотаро'.Издатель Такедзиро Хасегава..Takejiro Hasegawa (1853-1938) had a long association with Western missionaries and Westerners in Tokyo. It is through this association that he started printing woodblock illustrated books in the Western languages. Initially Hasegawa's books were published under the 'Kobunsha' imprint (Minami Saegi-cho and Maruya-cho, Kyobashi-ku, Tokyo) but in the 1889-1890 period the name was changed to T. Hasegawa (Hasegawa and Co.) and a number of addresses appear over the years. Books are found that were published ca 1928 which bear the imprint of 'T. Hasegawa and Son, Publishers and Art Printers' or 'T. Hasegawa and Son' with the 17 Kami Negishi, Tokyo address. On Hasegawa's death in 1939 (but perhaps as early as 1917/18) the firm operated under the name of Hasegawa and Nishinomiya, and subsequently Nishinomiya and Hasegawa.