- VICHITRATA by Rabindranath Tagore
TEXT IN BANGLA
1st edition [1100 copies]
Calcutta: Visva Bharati Prakashan
Poems by Tagore
31 colour plates with tissue guards by Rabindranath Tagore, Gaganendranath Tagore, Abanindranath Tagore, Nandalal Bose, Surendranath Kar, Sunayani Daevi, Ramendranath Chakravorty, Kshitindranath Mazumdar, Pratima Devi, Manishi De and Nidhikant Roychowdhury
Hardback with a drawing by Nandalal Bose
Size: 9.8 x 7.4 inches
- THAKURBARIR CHITRAKALA
[Art of the Thakurbari, the Tagore family home n Calcutta]
Text in Bangla but the captions of paintings also in English
CALCUTTA : RPG Enterprises/ 1991
pp. iv + 100 plates
Hardback with dustjacket, some pages coming loose
Full-page paintings by Jyotindranath Tagore, Rabindranath Tagore, Gaganendranath Tagore, Sunayani Devi and Rathindranath Tagore with photographic portraits of each
Most of the plates are in colour and the endpapers have signatures of all the Tagores printed
Size 11 x 8.8 inches
- SHANTINIKETAN - THE BOLPUR SCHOOL OF RABINDRANATH TAGORE
By W. W. Pearson
Illustrated by MUKUL CHANDRA DEY
London: Macmillan, 1917
pp. xv, 111 with about 24 b&w illustrations by Mukul Dey, four of them full-page and the rest chapter-heads or tailpieces
size: 8 x 5 inches
Original blue cloth binding with title embossed on cover and spine in gilt
Condition: Good. Covers a little speckled and foxing to paste downs
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