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Publications Committee World Engineering Congress (eds.).
Industrial Japan: A Collection of Papers by Specialists on Various Branches of Industry in Japan.
Publisher: World Engineering Congress, Tokyo;
Date of Publication: 1929
Stock Code: 15658
Octavo, pp., [xiv], 584, plus photographs, folding maps, and tables within text and two folding maps (one of railways, one of the geology of Japan) in pocket to end, as called for. Typescript letter of thanks signed by Baron Koi Furuichi inserted before prelims (as issued?). Publisher’s pebble-grain brown cloth; titled in gilt to spine; publisher’s stamp in blind within blind ruled border to upper board; grey flower and bird patterned end-papers. Presentation bookplate of the Library of the North East Coast Institution of Engineers and Shipbuilders, presented by the publisher 22 January 1930. Library stamp in blind and call number in white ink to spine. Shelf-wear to extremities; tear approx 2cm to cloth covering head of upper joint. Mottling to end-papers; small tear to one fold only of each map. A very good copy. The connections between shipbuilding on Tyneside and Japan date back at least as far as the Meiji Period, when Japanese engineers visited Newcastle to better understand modern industrial shipbuilding. That co-operation and friendship continued into the fin de siècle, as the Armstrong works supplied the Japanese navy with ships and materiel. This volume, presented by the Japanese-led World Engineering Congress to the prinicpal professional organisation for Tyneside shipbuilding, is an another example of this long history of co-operation through engineering and technology in book form. £60.00