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Cloth. Condition: Fine. Presumed First Edition. A Japanese language edition, with principal text in Japanese and supplemental text in English, such as illustration notes. Presumed first printing of the first edition. Printed and bound in Japan. 13.5 x 10.25 inches. Bound in handsome, linen-like pale orange cloth, with crisp gilt titling to the front board and the spine. Unbumped spine head and tail, and sharp corners. Immensely clean binding. Text block firmly bound in. This book features the renaissance architecture building in Minato, Tokyo that is the headquarters of the Tsunamachi Mitsui Club. With 260 numbered pages. Almost all of the full-color plates are printed on glossy stock and many are full-page. Also with numerous monochrome illustrations, B&W figure drawings, and a color fold-out map. A strikingly clean interior; the book almost certainly unread, and the text block still tight. With a heavy-duty slipcase of pale orange cloth. A Fine copy in a Fine slipcase. Very scarce in any condition. 6 lbs. 4 oz. This volume features a significant building and grounds in Japan by the architect Josiah Conder [1852-1920]. His name is transliterated in Japanese as Josaia Kondori. According to Wikipedia sources, Conder was a British architect who was hired by the Meiji Japanese government as a professor of architecture for the Imperial College of Engineering and became architect of Japan's Public Works. He started his own practice after 1888. Conder designed numerous public buildings in Tokyo, including the Rokumeikan, which became a controversial symbol of Westernisation in the Meiji period. He educated young Japanese architects, notably Tatsuno Kingo and Katayama Tokuma, earning him the nickname, father of Japanese modern architecture. Conder designed the renaissance architecture building in Minato, Tokyo that currently houses the Tsunamachi Mitsui Club, publishers of this book.