A Diplomat in Japan (Oxford in Asia Historial Reprints)

xii, 428pp some illustrations and a handful of black and white photographic plates including frontispiece. Black cloth-covered boards with gilt titles on spine and gilt design on front. Dust jacket spine is a little sun-faded and mildly chipped at top. Brown endpapers. Previous owner's name on front free endpaper. Internally neat, clean, bright and tight. 8vo. The most detailed contemporary account of Anglo-Japanese relations - the memoirs of distinguished diplomat, Sir Ernest Satow, first published in 1921. Equally as interesting for Satow's sharp comments on the personalities involved. Facsimile reprint of the first edition from 1921.