CHUGHTAI'S INDIAN PAINTINGS
Thirty-five plates in all - Twenty-seven in colours and the rest in monochromes
??Some paintings were specially made by Chughtai for this book.
Foreword by Dr Tara Chand/ Introduction and notes by Principal S. Kashmira Singh
New Delhi: Dhoomi Mal Dharam Das
1951
Pp 21 +35 full-page tipped plates with tissue guards carrying extensive commentaries
Size: 15.5 x 12 inches
In addition there are 8 small b&w tipped-in plates based on Chughtai's line drawings in the Introduction
The text also has one-page note byChughtai and one-page note by the Publisher
Bound in black buckram with a b&w line drawing and the title-ticket pasted on cover and with a chipped but complete dustjacket which is rarely to be found.
Size: 15.5 x 12 inches
The Dhoomimal Gallery of Delhi was the first to bring out a regular stream of monographs on Indian artists beginning 1943. Its owner Ram Babu, a wealthy stationery dealer who had turned to promoting Indian art and artists as a passion and also owned a printing press,sincerely believed in upholding production values. Thus, for CHUGHTAI'S INDIAN PAINTINGS, the Pakistani artist's only book printed in India and outside his private press, he got Chughtaito write a preface and brought it out as an elephant folio matching the size, format, binding style and cover of CHUGHTAI'S PAINTINGS, which the artist had first issued in Lahore around 1938. Ram Babu even printed wall posters to promote the book, something unheard of even today.
CHUGHTAI'S PAINTINGS
Thirty-nine Plates in all - Thirty-four Plates in colours, the rest in monochromes
Foreword by Dr. James H. Cousins/ Introduction and critical annotations by Mrs. Razia Siraj-ud-Din.br.Lahore (India): Jahangir Book Club, Chabuk Sawaran
Size: 12x 10 inches
No date but c. 1940 and First Edition thus
Pp 24 + 39 tipped-in plates with tissue guards carrying the title
Bound in black buckram with a b&w line drawing and the title-ticket pasted on cover.
CONDITION: A good copy but the front cover is discoloured
MURAQQA-i-CHUGHTAI
Paintings of M. A. Rahman Chughtai
With full text of Diwan-i-Ghalib
Foreword by Dr Sir Mohammad Iqbal
Introduction by Dr James H Cousins
WITH 30 FULL-PAGE PLATES and both Englishand 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 9inches
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 around 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 restin Urdu script [pp. 120]
CONDITION: A nice copy boundin maroon cloth with gilt title and ornamentation on cover. No dustjacket.
NAQSHA -i-CHUGHTAI
pp. 111 with 6 colour plates, 14 b&w plates and 2 line drawings
Text entirely in Urdu.br.LAHORE: Print Printo
1967
Originally published in 1935, this is the 1967 reprint by Chughtai himself with more plates than the original edition.
Size: 9 x 7.5 inches
In addition to the plates it has 2 pages with highly colourful and ornamental designs and each page has the text in black surrounded by yellow geometrical design.
Hardback with gilt design on cover.
Like Muraqqa-i-Chughtai, this also relates to Ghalib's poetry but is far more scarce. The only time it appeared inan auction house was in Bowring's Delhi auction on 20 November 2002, Lot 28.
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