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
No. 513 of a Limited Edition of 1500 copies
CALCUTTA: Published by the Golden BookCommittee/ 1931
Size: 12 x 9 inches
Pp xx, 374 + 30 plates
Frontispiece [Photogravure portrait of Tagore] + 29 plates, many of them tipped-in colour plates [with tissue guards carrying title and artist's name] by Abanindra Nath Tagore, NandaLal Bose, Asit Kumar Haldar, A. D. Thomas, Gogonendra Nath Tagore, Samarendra Nath Gupta, Abdur Rahman Chughtai and Ramendra Nath Chakravarti. Others are reproductions of works by a Chinese and a Japanese artist, portraits of Tagore done by eminentIndian and Western artists and early photographs of Tagore.
A facsimile reproduction of a handwritten and signed letter by Tagore on Santiniketan letterhead relating to the publication loosely inserted.
Bound in silk with a painting in vegetaldesign pasted on cover.
The final page states that the blocks for the illustrations in the book were engraved and printed at U. Ray & Sons. The firm was owned by the family of Satyajit Ray.
CONDITION: Covers soiled and grubby but the bookis sound inside. With 1932 signature of Ram B. Motwani of Larkana, Sind, on endpaper.
This lot will be sold in "as is" condition.
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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