A frontispiece of a novel in

A frontispiece "in" (probably a truncated catalog entry for a frontispiece from a specific publication) represents one of the many literary illustration commissions that filled Hanko's career. The incomplete title suggests catalog data drawn from a secondary source where the full publication details were not recorded. Hanko produced frontispieces for many of the major literary publications of the Meiji era, and his reputation was built substantially on this work, which brought his elegant figure style to the broadest possible reading public.