1888 Aino Folk-Tales

Description

First Edition, Very Scarce

A privately printed volume of folk tales of the Ainu, an indigenous ethnic group who reside in northern Japan and southeastern Russia.

Very scarce.

In a later cloth binding. 

Compiled by Basil Hall Chamberlain, a British academic and Japanologist. He was a professor of the Japanese language at Tokyo Imperial University and one of the foremost British Japanologists active in Japan during the late 19th century.

Privately printed for the Folklore Society, with a preliminary List of Officers of the Society for 1887-1888.

Introduction by English anthropologist Edward B. Tylor.

With a detailed engraved bookplate for the Scottish Rite of Freemasonry to the front paste down.