‎KYOTO COMMERCIAL MUSEUM ( editor ) :‎
‎The official catalogue (of) The Kyoto Commercial Museum.‎

‎"5. Kyoto, the Kyoto Commercial Museum, 1910, in-8°, 23 x 16 cm, 38 pp + 7 coloured double page plates ( unpaginated) + 55 pp ( advertisements, some coloured). Japanese binding, leaves printed on 1 side only ( uncut ), kept together with two silk ties. Bound in red boards covered with a delicate transparant silk tissue. Binding with some minor traces of use, endpapers with some faint foxing spots but on the whole still a fine/good copy. This catalogue of the ''Kyoto Commercial Museum'' was most probably published on the occasion of the 1910 Japan-British Exhibition ; The Japan-British Exhibition of 1910 ( Nichi-Ei Hakuran-kai) took place at White City, London in Great Britain from 14 May 1910 to 29 October 1910. The catalogue presents cultural, geographical and commercial information on the city of Kyoto . The ''Commercial Museum'' its function and title can be compared with what in the ''West'' would be called ''Chamber of Commerce''. The extensive and typographically well presented publicity section at the end of the catalogue offers a valuable insight into Kyoto's commerce and industry. Rare."‎

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