Hardback. A translation of the Kogo Shūi with an introduction and notes by Genchi Kato and Hikoshiro Hoshino. Third and enlarged edition. Small number of facsimile pages of manuscript are included. Records of Asian History series. Blue cloth gilt titles to spine is very clean and neat though slightly sunned to top edge. Few, faint foxing marks to endpapers. Dust wrapper is neat but dull and both slightly faded and slightly tanned to edges. Text is clean. Binding is sound.