- CHUGHTAI'S PAINTINGS
Thirty-nine Plates in all - Thirty-six Plates in colour, rest in monochromes
Foreword by Dr. James H. Cousins/ Introduction and critical annotations by Mrs. Razia Siraj-ud-Din
Lahore (India): Jahangir Book Club, Chabuk Sawaran
Size: 12 x 10 inches
No date but c. 1940 and First Edition thus
Pp 24 + 39 tipped-in plates with tissue guards carrying the title
- MURAQQA-I-CHUGHTAI: Paintings of M. A. Rahman Chughtai
With fulltext of Diwan-i-Ghalib
Foreword by Dr Sir Mohammad Iqbal
Introduction by Dr James H Cousins
WITH 30 FULL-PAGE PLATES and both English and Urdu title-pages
LAHORE: Print Printo
No date but reprinted in the 1970s by Chughtai himself since he owned Print Printo. He had originally published it in 1928.
Size: 11.5 x 9 inches
Of the 30 plates, 25 are in colour printed on art paper and 5 are full-page b&w line drawings. In addition, the title-page and a page further on have multicoloured geometrical designs enclosing the Urdu text. Two pages before the Urdu title-page too have Islamic calligraphic designs. Endpapers are printed in silver design. Each Urdu page printed in green ink with the text enclosed within yellow geometric pattern.
Foreword [pp. 3] and Introduction [pp. 3] dated 1928 in English, the rest in Urdu script [pp. 120]
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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