JAPAN AND HER PEOPLE (TWO VOLUMES COMPLETE)
Philadelphia, PA: Henry T. Coates & Co., 1902. Hardcover. Matching two volumes: Octavo, 8.25 n. x 5.5 in. Volume I: pp. x, 377; Volume II: pp. vi, 374. Illustrated with 25 photogravure illustrations with captioned tissue-guards (plates produced by Gilbo & Co.), and fold-our color map of Japan (Volume II). Elaborately decorated blue cloth of gilt stamped cranes and cherry blossoms. Circular gilt designs and title to spines. Top rear corner of Volume II nudged. Light shelfwear to edges and spine caps. Blue cloth-on-paper dustjackets with light wear to edges and spine ends. Mylar cover to protect gilt boards sits between the boards and the dustjackets. Very Good Plus / Very Good. Item #88785
Anna Cope Hartshorne (1860 – 1957) was an American educator and writer based in Japan. A member of a prominent Philadelphia Quaker family. Hartshorne taught English literature at the Friends' School in Tokyo in the 1890s. She helped raise funds to open the Joshi Eigaku Juku (Women's Institute of English Studies) in 1900, which was forerunner of Tsuda University. which she co-founded and where she taught from 1902 until 1940.
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