Japan By Jesse Page c1895 First Edition 
A fascinating rarer first edition packed full of information Not found in later guides. No other copies of the same edition found on the internet at the time of listing. Image of Nagasaki 
"Japan is the child of the old age of the nineteenth century and the eyes of the world are turned; with mingled admiration and concern towards this lively little nation of the East." Although she has not yet attained her jubilee of modern history, the two or three decades of her national life already passed have been distinguished by an almost unprecedented progress in civilisation. With astonishing dexterity, she has picked up the best in Western ideas and assimilated them to her own advantage. And in this she has not been, as some might imagine, a mere copyist. The Japanese ideas has always striven to study, and appreciatively, the progressive elements of other countries character, to try if possible to improve upon them. In some cases she has done so very successfully.  Thus it happens that Japan is one of the most ‘up-to-date’ nations of the world today.” 
First edition c1895
Published by S.W. Partridge and Co, 8 & 9  Paternoster Row, London
Size: 19cm x 12.5cm
 160 pages + 20 pages of advertisements 
 Illustrated throughout with line drawing and photographs, showing rare views of landscape scenery and people and places. 
Contents:
The History of old-fashioned Japan
The Jesuits Come and Go
The Breaking o the Silent Centuries
Betwixt Shinto and Buddha
Sowing in Teras and Firstfruits
The Japs at home 
Medical Missions and the Bible
Among the Hairy Ainos
Neesima The story of a convert
Looking ahead. Clouds and Sunlight
 
Condition:
Blue cloth boards are good and strong.  White water marks to bottom left hand corner on the front and down the right hand side on the rear cover. (see photograph). Spine bright and clean no sun fade. Scuff and bumping on outer edges. with fading gilt lettering on front cover and spine. Scuffs and bumps to corners of covers and spine.  Foxing throughout and pages are age-toned yellowing at the edges and are quite fragile.  Repair to  inner cover. Some have small tears.  Inscription inside front cover.’