SIX PORTRAITS OF SIR RABINDRANATH TAGORE by W. Rothenstein
With a prefatory note by Max Beerbohm
LONDON: Macmillan
1915
pp. x, followed by 6 portraits with tissue guards
Paper-covered boards with cloth spine
Size 15 x 11 inches
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CHITRALIPI 1 [by] RABINDRANATH TAGORE
Published by Visva-Bharati, Calcutta
1962 [Second Edition; 1st published 1940]
2-page essay 'My Pictures' with Tagore's signatures printed at the end.
1 page carrying 2 poems in Tagore's handwriting in Bangla and English
18 tipped-in colour plates with facing page carrying its description in Bangla and English in Tagore's handwriting
Hardback with dustjacket which has a Tagore painting pasted on it.
12 x 9.5 inches
CHITRALIPI2 [by] RABINDRANATH TAGORE
Published by Visva-Bharati, Calcutta
1962 [Second Edition; 1st published 1951]
2-page essay 'My Pictures' [different from the one in volume 1 above] with Tagore's signatures printed at the end.
15 tipped-incolour plates without captions.
Hardback lacking dustjacket
12 x 9.5 inches
POET-PAINTER: PAINTINGS BY RABINDRANATH TAGORE
Interpretation by Mulk Raj Anand
London: Tricolour Books [Printed in India]
August 1985
pp. 86 with numerous plates
Hardback with dustjacket
Size 9.5 x 10 inches
PAINTINGS OF RABINDRANATH TAGORE
Special issue of MARG Magazine, Bombay, for March 1961
18-page essay by Mulk Raj Anand + 26 pages of works by Tagore reproduced on art paper
Among the adverts there are 3 [Air-India, Godrej, and Scientific Instrument Company] carrying portraits of Tagore. The last 2 with recommendations from Tagore with his printed signatures!
With supplement to the issue carrying a 7-page essay'Tradition and Creative Evolution of Indian Art' by H. Goetz loosely inserted.
CONDITION: Covers separated from text block. Else fine.
Size 13 x 10 inches
TAGORE AN ARTIST
By Carol Cuthbertson
Published by Visva-Bharati, Calcutta.br.1968
pp. 39 + colour frontispiece of Tagore portrait
Softcover/ 8.5 x 5.5 inches
GITANJALI AND FRUIT-GATHERING
By Sir Rabindranath Tagore
With illustrations by Nandalal Bose, Surendranath Kar, Abanindranath Tagore and NobendranathTagore
Introduction by W. B. Yeats
NEW YORK: Macmillan
pp. xxvii, 221 + 8 colour plates and 23 b&w illustrations
Hardcover / 8 x 5.5 inches
Attractive art deco bookplate of Ellida Louise Mattsson
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