WOMEN OF INDIA by Otto Rothfeld
With 48 full-page illustrations in colours by RAO BAHADUR M.V. DHURANDHAR
Bombay: D. B. Taraporevala, 1928 [2nd impression]
Pp viii, 223 + 48 colour plates showing women of all parts of India
Size: 8 x 6 inches
Blue cloth binding with gilt title on spine
INDIAN FIGURE STUDIES BY BHABANI CHURN LAW
Introduction by Muriel Percy Brown, wife of the eminent art critic
Calcutta and Simla: Thacker Spink & Co
1918
17 plates [4 in colour are tipped-in], all showing women
Bhabani Churn Law [1880-1926] is a lesser known Bengal School artist.
String-bound wrappers / 10.5 x 8 inches
THE BEAUTIFUL MOGUL PRINCESSES
By Maharani Sunity Devee
Calcutta: Thacker Spink / London: W. Thacker
1918
pp. 129 + 10 tipped in colour plates of paintings, some signed C. Roy
A remarkably fresh copy with a painting pasted on cover, set within gilt ornate design.
Sunity Devee was the Maharani of Coochbehar and maternal grandmother of Maharani Gayatri Devi of Jaipur. The gift inscription to Indira, Gayatri Devi's mother, on the back of the frontispiece is actually printed.
9.5 x 6 inches
THE LIFE OF PRINCESS YASHODARA, WIFE AND DISCIPLE OF THE LORD BUDDHA
BySunity Devee, Dowager Maharani of Cooch Behar
With 11 tipped-in colour plates by Bhuban Mohen Mukerjie
LONDON: Elkin Mathews and Marrot Ltd
1929
pp. xii, 75
Hardcover with gilt title and Cooch Behar insignia on cover
11 x 8.5 inches
A very good copy.
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