THE GOLDEN BOOK OF TAGORE: A Homage to Rabindranath Tagore from India and the World in Celebration of his Seventieth Birthday
Edited by Ramananda Chatterjee
Calcutta: The Golden Book Committee
1931
12 x 8.75 in. (30.5 x 22.5 cm.)
1115from a limited edition of 1500 copies
Photographic portrait of Tagore in photogravure, after a photograph by Martin Vos, as frontispiece. Of the remaining twenty-nine plates, many are tipped-in colour plates (with tissue guards carrying titleand artist's name) including Abanindra Nath Tagore, Nanda Lal Bose, Asit Kumar Haldar, A.D. Thomas, Gogonendra Nath Tagore, Samarendra Nath Gupta, Abdur Rahman Chughtai and Ramendra Nath Chakravarti. Other plates are reproductions of works by Chineseand Japanese artists, portraits of Tagore done by eminent Indian and Western artists and early photographs of Tagore. Most pages remain uncut along the top edge.
The last page states that the blocks for the illustrations in the book were engraved and printed at U. Ray & Sons, Calcutta, a firm that was owned by the family of Satyajit Ray.
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There may be some minor tears/creases scratches, or holes commensurate with age that may not be visible in the images.
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