~~ Book 1906111118a ~~Japanese Studies
H.G. Ponting
1906, First Edition, Collotypes by K. Ogawa - Type A Covers
(Reference to K. Ogawa on Front Cover)
Condition. The book is in Very Good condition. The cover edges are scraped and the corners bumped/slightly rounded. The spine covering at the top has breaks. There are no cuts or tears to the folded edges. The tissue guard between plates 32 and 33 has a one inch piece missing at the outside edge. There is a small "K & W" (Kelly & Walsh) hand stamp on the colophon. There is heavy toning to the front free page. There are occasional smudges in the margins but the image are clean and free of faults.
Ponting, H. G.
Ogawa, K. (Collotypes):
Japanese Studies by H. G. Ponting. F.R.G.S. Collotyped by K. Ogawa. F.R.P.S., published by K. Ogawa, Tokyo, distributed by Kelly Walsh, Limited, Yokohama, oblong 8vo (11 x 7 1/2 in 28 x 20 cm), 1906, bound Japanese style with blue and white string ties, head and foot of spine covered approximately 1 in with cloth, decorated (color) paper over cardboard covers, folded pages (with thin folded paper stiffener inside) separated by tissue guards, 52 Japanese scenes taken by the noted English photographer H. G. Ponting and printed in collotypes by Kazumasa Ogawa, pages unnumbered. The book was issued with black and white collotype plates and hand colored collotype plates. This book has the uncolored collotype plates. Images are various sizes with a typical image size of 6 1/2 x 4 1/2 in. Each image has a descriptive title in the left or right margin and most have a relevant line of poetry below the image.
A noted photographer, Ponting spent three years traveling throughout Japan. This was just prior to his travels with Scott and Shackleton in the Antarctic, as the official photographer for the expeditions.
While identical in all other respects, I have seen the books (black and white and hand colored) with 4 images (2 folded pages) in a different order. Those images are noted by an * in the listing below.
A similar companion book was published in 1905 titled Fuji San. It contained H.G. Pontings photographs of Mt Fuji which were rendered in collotype by K. Ogawa. For more information on that book, click here.
I have examined first edition books, as this one, with two slightly different covers. I call this Cover Type A. To see Covers Type A & B, click here.
A second edition of the book was printed in 1920 with collotypes by the Taikosha. For more information on the second edition, click here.
Collotypes (Black and White Collotype Plate Edition).
- Mount Fuji
- Evening at Matsushima
- *The Pine Clad Shores of Nippon
- *Miyajima
- The Ivory Carvers
- Nara, the Heart of Old Japan
- The Abbot of Ikegami
- In Shiba Park, Tokyo
- A Summer Shower in the Woods
- Lake Motosu and Mount Fuji
- Meditation, A Study of Gamman-ga Fuchi
- O Tsune San
- *At Matsushima
- *Kameido Temple Garden Tokyo
- Traveling by Kago in the Nikko Mountains
- Fishing Boats at Kawasaki
- Himeiji Castle
- On the Hozu Rapids
- A Priest of Buddha
- Tamadare-no-taki, Hakone
- Tea Picking on the Shizuoka Hills
- An Avenue of Torri at Inari, Kyoto
- The Story Book
- In an Old Garden
- The Fortune Teller
- The Embroiderer
- At Fair Miyajima
- Wisteria
- The Pines of Mio
- A Study of the Shoji
- The Avenue at Nikko
- A Prayer Wheel at Zenkoji
- A Glen on the Hozu-gawa
- A Priest of Kunozan
- On a Pilgrimage to Nara
- The Bronze Sculptor
- The Nara Pagoda
- A Study of a Geisha
- Kinkakuji, Kyoto
- In Lotus Land
- In a Japanese Garden
- Painting Pottery
- The Golden Days of Autumn
- November at the Flower Show
- On the Tokaido
- The Potter at his Wheel
- Moonlight at Kiyomizu, Kyoto
- December in Japan
- The Daiya River at Nikko
- Lake Kawaguchi from Torii zaka
- Lake Kawaguchi
- Sayonara
* The placement of these two folded pages (4 images) varies among books.
Title Page
1906, First Edition, Collotypes by K. Ogawa
Colophon
1906, First Edition, Collotypes by K. Ogawa
Printed: Meiji 39(1906).11.26
Published: Meiji 39(1906).11.29
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