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    FREEMAN-MITFORD, A.B. [aka.: Lord Redesdale]

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    London 1900, Macmillan. Cloth, teg., 386p., index, fold-out map. A unique copy, with autor's two page holographic letter tipped in, signed and dated September 17, 1900. * * RARE FIRST EDITION * * . *** **** *** . . THE LIFE AND TIMES OF A CAREER DIPLOMAT IN JAPAN & CHINA . . * Covers the author's experiences as a British diplomat. . *** Algernon Bertram FREEMAN-MITFORD1st Baron Redesdale, GCVO, KCB, DL [1837-1916] was a British diplomat, collector and writer. Nicknamed "Barty", he was the paternal grandfather of the Mitford sisters. . The author was also known as: MITFORD, A[lgernon] B.F. [Lord Redesdale], and used variants of this name when he authored other books. . *** DIPLOMACY: . Entering the Foreign Office in 1858, Mitford was appointed Third Secretary of the British Embassy in St Petersburg. After service in the Diplomatic Corps in Shanghai, he went to Japan as second secretary to the British Legation at the time of the migration of the Japanese Seat of Power from Kyoto to Edo (modern-day Tokyo), known as the "Meiji Restoration." . Mitford's memoirs recount the troubled time of the foreign settlements at Kobe over the fortnight following American Rear-Admiral Henry Bell's death, and the death of British consul Francis Gerard Mijburgh. . Redesdale served as secretary under Myburgh's replacement, John Frederik Lowder. There he met Ernest Satow and wrote Tales of Old Japan (1871), a book credited with making such Japanese Classics as "The Forty-Seven Ronin" first known to a wide Western public. . He resigned from the diplomatic service in 1873. . Following the 1902 Anglo-Japanese Alliance, in 1906 he accompanied Prince Arthur on a visit to Japan to present the Emperor Meiji with the Order of the Garter. He was asked by courtiers there about Japanese ceremonies that had disappeared since 1868. . He had persuaded Edward VII to plant Japanese knotweed at Sandringham House and it later became difficult to eradicate, according to George VI. . *** OTHER BOOKS WRITTEN BY FREEMAN-MITFORD: . TALES OF OLD JAPAN. London 1871, Macmillan. [Classic translations of Japanese Ancient stories & folk-tales. . THE BAMBOO GARDEN. London 1896, Macmillan. An excellent monograph on Japanese bamboo. . *** Color scans are posted to our website. . *** REFERENCE: . en-wikipedia-org/wiki/Algernon_Freeman-Mitford,_1st_Baron_Re desdale . *.