£150
Japan & Wales. A lady's friendship album, dated 1915, 20ff illustrated in either watercolour, pen-and ink, &/or pencil, of which 5 are the signed works of Japanese visitors, presumably officials, accompanying the 1915 Japanese Exhibition in Cardiff, along with 6ff inscribed and signed by them in their native calligraphic script and English, some dedicated to Miss Joyce Howell, the album's original owner, the remaining illustrations unassociated to Anglo-Japanese relations, but include a World War One related caricature, inscribed Pte. M. Eastick/ No. 4329/ 1./5. Norfolks, original roan over boards, worn, perished spine, some movement, oblong 4to
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