Early Japanese Books in Cambridge University Library

This is a complete catalogue in Japanese with a parallel Japanese/English introduction of early books acquired by the diplomats W. G. Aston Ernest Satow and Heinrich von Siebold in Japan mostly in the 1860s and 1870s. Of the 2500 items some are manuscripts and some movable-type books from the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries; the bulk however are wood-block printed books of the Edo period (16001868). The editors'' introduction outlines the history of the collection identifying some of the more important items and explaining the bibliographical principles on which the catalogue has been compiled. The entries that follow give title author/editor/illustrator date of publication and/or printing all participating publishers and the seals of previous owners.