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Japan.- Wedding Album, relating to the marriage of Mary Fanny Hannen to Edward Charles Hannen in Yokohama in 1891, comprising announcement, press reports, telegrams, invitations, 2 albumen prints of the floral arrangements, and newspaper announcements of the death and funeral of Lord Hannen in 1894 and an albumen print of a family group in a garden in front of a large Buddha, all mounted on thick card leaves, with a photographic portrait of Sir Nicholas Hannen in his judicial robes loosely inserted, contemporary black lacquer covers decorated in gilt and colours, g.e., lower cover a little rubbed, corners chipped, rebacked in morocco, oblong 4to, [1891].

⁂ Sir Nicholas Hannen (1842-1900) served as a barrister and judge in both China and Japan, he was Judge of H.B.M.'s Court for Japan from 1881-91. HIs brother, James, Lord Hannen (1821-94) was also a judge, in England.

Description

Japan.- Wedding Album, relating to the marriage of Mary Fanny Hannen to Edward Charles Hannen in Yokohama in 1891, comprising announcement, press reports, telegrams, invitations, 2 albumen prints of the floral arrangements, and newspaper announcements of the death and funeral of Lord Hannen in 1894 and an albumen print of a family group in a garden in front of a large Buddha, all mounted on thick card leaves, with a photographic portrait of Sir Nicholas Hannen in his judicial robes loosely inserted, contemporary black lacquer covers decorated in gilt and colours, g.e., lower cover a little rubbed, corners chipped, rebacked in morocco, oblong 4to, [1891].

⁂ Sir Nicholas Hannen (1842-1900) served as a barrister and judge in both China and Japan, he was Judge of H.B.M.'s Court for Japan from 1881-91. HIs brother, James, Lord Hannen (1821-94) was also a judge, in England.

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