Author: Catalogue - books. Aoki Suzando.
Title: [Naigai Shoseki Shuppan Hatsuda Mokuroku]
Description: Aoki Suzando 1903 (Meiji 36). 11x16cm publisher's colour printed wrapper; 316pp. Natural browning of the paper, an old fold; a rather good copy. ¶ Aoki Suzando was a busy and bigtime publisher of prints and bookseller with shops in Osaka and Tokyo from the late 1870s to the early 1920s. These are illustrated on the back wrapper. I have no idea how many thousand books are in this catalogue of domestic and foreign books but it must be a pretty good indication of what was available in late Meiji Japan.

Keywords: trade catalogues books Japan c20th modernism meiji