Kobutori [cover title]. The Old Man & The Devils. Japanese Fairy Tales, No. 7 de [Hepburn, James Curtis, translator; Sensei Eitaku, illustrator]

Tokyo: Kobunsha, [1886]. 16mo (7.5" x 5"), color woodblock wrappers, silk ties. 20 pp. including inside of wrappers, numerous color woodblock illus. With early inscription "Father from Roxie 1886" on inside of front wrapper. A delightfully illustrated version of this Japanese folktale, translated by Christian missionary J. C. Hepburn.

CONDITION: Good, with rubbing at extremities and a 15 cm closed tear to one illus., partially repaired on verso, light soiling on first p.