In Lotus-Land Japan
( Herbert PONTING, photos ) PONTING, Herbert G.
BRIGHT, CLEAN PUBLISHER'S PRESENTATION COPY
Published: Macmillan, 1910
Stock code: 52099
Price: £196.00
8vo., First Edition, with fine tipped-in coloured frontispiece (original captioned tissue guard present), 7 fine tipped-in coloured plates (all original captioned tissue guards present) and 109 fine plates in monochrome (a number tinted), free endpapers lightly browned; original red buckram, upper board blocked and lettered in gilt, gilt back, neatly rebacked with old backstrip laid down, a very good, bright, clean, crisp copy.
A presentation copy from the publisher with blind stamp on blank margin of title. Vividly-written and superbly photographed account of the author's travels and reportage across Japan during the Russo-Japanese war. As one would expect from Ponting, the images are superb evocations of a lost 'lotus' land. The work was published shortly before Ponting's appointment as official photographer and cinematographer to Scott's Terra Nova Expedition (1910-1913) which resulted in the world-famous polar images for which Ponting is renowned.