Kinzig, Wolfram [Editor]:Faith in Formulae: A Collection of Early Christian Creeds and Creed-related Texts, Four-Volume Set (Oxford Early Christian Texts)
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Boston [1897], Millet. Red cloth spines over stiff wrappers, 15 vol. set, 382p.,29 of 30 hand colored albumen photos +215 b.w. collotype photos by Tamamura,15 color flower collotypes by K… Mehr…
Boston [1897], Millet. Red cloth spines over stiff wrappers, 15 vol. set, 382p.,29 of 30 hand colored albumen photos +215 b.w. collotype photos by Tamamura,15 color flower collotypes by K. Ogawa. folio size:32 x 39.5 cm .*FIRST & ONLY EDITION* . *** **** *** . . .A STUNNINGLY EXCELLENT ILLUSTRATED DESCRIPTION OF OLD JAPAN . . WITH . . 29 HAND-COLORED 8 X 10" ORIGINAL ALBUMEN PHOTOGRAPHS . . & 215 BLACK & WHITE COLLOTYPE TEXT PHOTOS . . BY THE EMINENT JAPANESE PHOTOGRAPHER K. TAMAMURA . . . PLUS . . 30 FULL-PAGE COLOR COLLOTYPE PHOTOGRAPHS . . BY JAPAN'S MOST CELEBRATED PHOTOGRAPHER, K. OGAWA . . . INCLUDING . . . 15 FULL-PAGE TEXTILE PATTERNS IN COLOR . . * THE TEXT AUTHOR: CAPTAIN FRANCIS [Frank] BRINKLEY 1841-1912; . He was an Anglo-Irish newspaper owner, editor, scholar, Military advisor & journalist who resided in Meiji period [1968-1912] Japan for over 40 years. . In 1867 Captain Brinkley returned to Japan, never again to return home. Attached to the British-Japanese Legation and still an officer in the Royal Artillery, he was assistant military attaché to the Japanese Embassy. . He resigned his commission in 1871 to take up the post of foreign advisor to the new Meiji government and taught artillery techniques to the new Imperial Japanese Navy at the Naval Gunnery School. . Brinkley was one of a very few westerners who actually mastered the Japanese language soon after his arrival, and both spoke and wrote it well. This may account for the Japanese naval success over Russia in 1904! . In 1878 he was invited to teach mathematics at the Imperial College of Engineering, which later became part of Tokyo Imperial University, remaining in this post for two and a half years. . In the same year he married Yasuko Tanaka, the daughter of a former Samurai from the Mito clan. They were the parents of two daughters and a son named Jack Ronald Brinkley [1887 - 1964]. . In 1881 until his death he owned and edited the JAPAN MAIL, Mail a newspaper, receiving financial support from the Japanese government and consequently maintaining a pro-Japanese stance. The newspaper was perhaps the most influential and widely read English language newspaper in the Far East. . He was an eminent author of numerous books on Japanese culture, art and architecture and an English-Japanese Dictionary. See below for more details. . *** RARITY: This set is highly collectable, seldom found, among his RAREST sets, most of his works consist of 10 volumes, this being a 15 volume set was issued in a small edition. With excellent photos & illustrations of Japan. . *** SUBJECTS & CONTENTS: An eclectic work, covering all of aspects of Japan, Japanese life, people, costumes, famous scenery, Mt. Fuji, costume, customs, trades, textiles, tattooed men, rice culture, Ikebana Zen flower arrangement, tea, musical instruments, dancers, women, gardens & many Yokohama views. . Additionally includes silk culture & weaving, arms, armor & Samurai, flowers in color, theatre, actors, Sumo, landscape, Kimono & other garments, Kyoto, Tokyo, Kobe, Nagasaki, architecture, bronzes and too many to list. . Views of famous places, daily activities, toil, work, trades, farming, commerce, household activities and much more. . A keen insight to the Japanese with essays by their scholars in English. . *** LAVISHLY ILLUSTRATED BY TWO EMINENT JAPANESE PHOTOGRAPHERS: . K. OGAWA IMAGES: Each volume begins with 15 beautiful full-page color collotype photo of a flowers. . T. TAMAMURA IMAGES: Followed by followed by 2 hand-tinted albumen large size photos per volume [29 of 30] present, each is large size: 8 x 10 inches, each with separate caption sheet. . They show portraits, famous scenic spots, famous people, sights and much more. . Followed by 215 black and white text collotype photographs. . These photos show interiors of homes, art works, country scenery, activities of daily life, and a host of other views on Japan in the late 19th century. . * This work is a fascinating insight to the Japanese and their way of life, culture and the results of western influences from abroad. . An excellent primary visual source for Japan prior to her modernization and huge leap into the western--influenced new world. . A superb photographic essay capturing stunning images of old Meiji period [1968-1912] Japan, by her two most iconic photographers. . *** CONTENTS OF THE 15 SECTION/VOLUME SET: . This title was edited by Captain Francis Brinkley. . The table of contents is found on the last page of volume 15. Volume 1 begins with page 1, and each volume continues the pagination to the end on volume 15 as page 382, the set is complete. . Introduction by Arthur J. Mundy . Chapter.1: THE EMPIRE, ITS SIZE, BUILDINGS, CITIES & SCENERY . Edited by Captain Francis Brinkley. . Chapter 2. THE EARLY JAPANESE AND THEIR HISTORY. . Chapter 3. ditto above, concluded. Lacking 1 of 2 color . albumen photos. . Chapter 4: ESTABLISHMENT OF THE TOKUGAWA DYNASTY AND . JAPAN'S RELATIONS WITH THE ORIENT IN THE EARLY . AGES OF THE CHRISTIAN ERA. . Chapter.5: JAPAN'S DEBT TO CONTINENTAL NEIGHBORS IN EARLY . ERAS. . Chapter 6: MEDIAEVAL JAPAN . Chapter 7: YOSHITSUNE, GENGHIS AND THE MONGOL INVASION . Chapter 7: ditto above, concluded. . Chapter 8: CREEDS AND CASTES . Chapter 9: RELIGION AND RITES . Chapter 10: SUPERSTITIONS AND DIVINATION . Chapter 11: FESTIVALS . Chapter 12. OBSERVANCES AND PASTIMES . Chapter 12. ditto concluded . Chapter 13: JAPAN'S COMMERCIAL AND POLITICAL INTERCOURSE . WITH FOREIGN COUNTRIES. . Chapter 13. ditto above, concluded . Chapter 14. THE ATTITUDE OF JAPAN TOWARD FOREIGN RESIDENTS, . JAPANESE FINANCE. . Chapter 14. ditto above, concluded . Chapter 15: MODERN JAPAN IN BRIEF. . *** Color photos are posted to our website. . *** PROFUSELY ILLUSTRATED BY TWO ICONIC JAPANESE PHOTOGRAPHERS: . TAMAMURA KOZABURO [1856-1923?] & OGAWA Kazumasa [1860-1929]: . He worked in his Yokohama studio & provided images, albums and photographic service to both Japanese and mostly his foreign clients by 1881. His family were hereditary retainers to the Hoshino of Rinnoji, a branch of the Imperial family whose head had served as chief priest to the main temple in Nikko since 1654 ergo his interest in taking photographs of the temples there. . His business thrived with the sudden influx of foreigners to Japan and he gained a reputation as a very skilled professional & provided large orders for glass slide & photographs to universities of Cambridge & Chicago. . * OGAWA Kazumasa [1860-1929]: . He was born in Saitama prefecture, in the Matsudaira Samurai clan. He started studying English and photography at the age of 15 under Yoshiwara Hideo, then in 1880 he moved to Tokyo in order to further hone his English language skills. One year later, Kazumasa was hired as an interpreter in the Yokohama Police Department, while learning photography from the celebrated Shimoka Renjo in Yokohama. . In 1882, he moved to Boston where he took courses in portrait photography and dry plate process. He also studied collotype printing in Albert Type Company. . Upon his return to Japan in 1884, he opened a photographic studio in Tokyo's Iidabashi, in Kojimachi, which was the first studio of this kind in Tokyo. Four years later, he established the Tsukiji Kampan Seizo Kaisha [Tsukiji dry plate manufacturing company], which manufactured dry plates for use by photographers. In 1889, he set up Japan's first collotype business, the Ogawa Shashin Seihan jo, also referred to as the K. Ogawa printing factory. In the same year, Kazumasa worked as an editor for Shashin Shimpo [The Photography Journal], the only photographic journal available at the time which he printed using the collotype printing process. He also printed KOKKA journal by the same method. . Ogawa Kazumasa was a founding member of the Japan Photographic Association [Nihon Shashin Kai], which gathered photography amateurs from all around Japan. In 1891 he was responsible for taking 100 pictures of Tokyo's most attractive geisha, to commemorate the opening of the Ryounkaku. . The contribution by Ogawa to Japanese photography is by and large the most important and fascinating of any Japanese photographer. . *** HAND-COLORED ALBUMIN PHOTOGRAPHS: . The work has 29 of 30 photographs, 1 lacking from vol.3, each is 25.5x 19.5 cm.[the typical large size: ca. 8 x 10 inches]. . For the most part, each photograph has been skillfully hand-tinted with pastel colors. During the Meiji period a red ink was imported from Germany, it was the first of the aniline types. It was a strong red and seldom faded, while other colors did fade 'gracefully' the red remained with its original tone value. . One photograph has a replacement page where it is tipped into volume 1. . Each photo has a cover sheet with English captions. The majority of the photos are very good, with a touch of fading. There are a few that show the typical Meiji "red" accent which is less faded, and a bit too bright. By and large the photos are clean, no marks. The typical fading of the photos is to be expected given their age. Each photo is . BLACK & WHITE COLLOTYPE PHOTOGRAPHS: There are 215 b.w. text collotype photographs. . COLOR FLOWER COLLOTYPE: Each volume begins with a full-page color collotype photograph of a flower, each has a tissue guard protector, 15 in all. . COLOR TEXTILE PATTERN PAGE: Each volume has one page per volume, i.e. 15 in all, showing a single color print of a textile design pattern. . *** CONDITION: Bindings: Generic: This set is bound in the original publisher's red cloth spines over red-cover design printed stiff wrappers. The wrappers are as usual showing some edge wear, small closed tears, small parts missing and or some mended using white Washi [handmade mulberry fiber] paper, to reinforce & stabilize where useful, not all covers are thus mended. . A several volumes have some archival tape inside of either the front or back covers to add strength and firmness to the over all stability. . There is some of the usual wear and minor loss to the spine head & tail cloth from the attrition rate. All volumes are sound, firm and stable. Some hinge joints remain tender and the book should be handled with care when opening, supporting the front & rear covers by placing a book on either side prior to opening, opening less that 180 degrees is advised. . Contents: The contents is pristine, free of any marks or issues, all pages are clean. The text is printed on double-folded leaves, Japanese style and should NOT be cut, per the cautionary label found inside the front cover of some volumes. . The book is complete with all illustrations but per above lacks 1 color albumem photo as cited. Two of the photographs have been tipped in to new white pages. There are 29 of 30 color albumen photographs. . *** THE BINDING: This book was prone to typical but minor spine cloth wear near the head and tail, the set is solidly bound. Some of the inside of the front or back hinges have been reinforced with white archival tape at the inside the front/back hinges, others are reinforced at the lower left corner between the hinge cloth & front cover. . As usual, the cover edges have signs of wear, small closed tears, small parts missing and or have been repaired with Washi [handmade Japanese mulberry-fiber] paper in the distant past. Being over 125 years old, condition is typical of a book from this period and age. . *** -> ->-> !! IMPORTANT NOTE PLEASE READ PRIOR TO ORDERING: The set is sold 'as is' and is NOT returnable, by ordering you agree to these terms and fully understand the above condition of the book. . *** NOTE: This is a large size set, very heavy, appropriate packing, post and insurance applies. . *** BIBLIOGRAPHY OF BRINKLEY'S WRITINGS: . JAPAN AND CHINA: Their History Arts and Literature (1901) J. B. Millet Company, Boston and Tokyo. Twelve volumes: Eight on Japan, four on China. Earliest print runs by publisher are the Marquis Ito edition (160 numbered registered sets) and Artists Edition (500 numbered registered sets). . A HISTORY OF THE JAPANESE PEOPLE. 1915 . *** REFERENCES: . About the author: Captain Francis Brinkley: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Brinkley * T. Bennett: EARLY JAPANESE IMAGES p.51 for good biographical notes. . It is interesting to note that Bennett cites the fact [p.52] that Tamamura Kozaburo was commissioned to produce 180,000 hand-colored [albumen] photographs... he stated: "undoubtedly provided the photographs used in Capt. Brinkley's book JAPAN DESCRIBED & ILLUSTRATED BY THE JAPANESE." * TAMAMURA KOZABURO en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tamamura_K%C5%8Dzabur%C5%8D . * ., 0, Oxford University Press, 2017-09-13. Hardcover. New., Oxford University Press, 2017-09-13, 6<
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