KHSITINDRA NATH MAZUMDAR
By Ordhendra Coomar Gangoly
[Modern Indian Artists, Volume One]
No. 61 of a limited edition of 300 copies
Calcutta: H. Mukhurji at the Clive Press
No date [c. 1922]
pp. 42 + 5 colour plates [one folding] and21 photogravures, each with tissue guard bearing the title in red
Size: 8.7 x 6 inches
Printed on handmade paper and bound in grey paper-covered boards with parchment spine. B&w portrait of Mazumdar pasted on cover with the title embossed in gilt. Three further volumes in the series were announced of which only the one on Asit Kumar Haldar was printed before the series was discontinued. Title partly printed in red. Dedicated to Abanindra Nath Tagore with a 3-stanza Sanskrit poem printed in red.
Title-page misspells KSHITINDRA as KHSITINDRA
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