With 56 hand-colored collotype postcards, most measuring 3½”x5½” and are laid into pages with silk covers, hand-decorated with flower prints in watercolor. (Oblong 4to) 9¾x13½, Japanese lacquer album in black, front cover with hand-painted designs in gold, red, gray, and brown colors, showing a porter pulling a woman on a jin-rickshaw while she is holding an umbrella, each of the two have carved inset ivory faces etched in black, with Mr. Fuji in the background, black leather spine.

Superb album with lacquer covers and ivory faces and hand-colored collotype postcards of Japanese girls and young women. Domestic, social and cultural activities. Interesting poses and expressions reflect the era. Silk-covered pages adorned with watercolor floral designs give a fin-de-siecle feeling.