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Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. 1st Edition. A scarce first edition of this early Japanese translation of "Robinson Crusoe". Defoe's novel experienced great popularity in the Meiji period, and many different editions of it were published. Illustrated first editions such as this, however, are now quite difficult to find. The translator, Inoue Tsutomu, famous for writing some of the first Japanese translations of influential texts by figures like Shakespeare, Thomas More, and Jules Verne, "treated Crusoe as a fictional character, not as an actual person, but he also asserted that the novel was no mere adventure story and that it served to teach young Englishmen to overcome hardship" ("Modern Japanese thought", Wakabayashi, 1998). An early translation of the classic novel by one of the most prominent Japanese translators of the 1880s. Boards covered with paper by an ex-owner. Boards and spine a little worn, corners bumped. Washi repairs to board gutters. Browning, ex-bookseller sticker and stamps to endpapers. Discolouration and occasional small marks to text. Light pencil notes to preface. Loss to margin of one illustrated plate (not affecting illustration). Overall very good. 1 v., complete. 10, 410 p. 19.7 x 13.8 cm. Text in Japanese.…