a)
TITLE: India
AUTHOR: Cecil Beaton
PUBLISHER: Thacker & Co. Ltd.
PLACE: Bombay
YEAR: 1945
BINDING: Publisher's brown cloth with gold lettering to front cover
NO.OF PAGES: 100 full page photos. Black and white photographic illustrations
SIZE:
Height: 28 cm
Width: 24 cm
Depth: 1.5 cm

Stunning collection of black and white photographs of India taken by Cecil Beaton throughout 1944.

b)
TITLE: An Indian Album
AUTHOR: Cecil Beaton
PUBLISHER: B.T. Batsford Ltd
PLACE: London
YEAR: 1946
EDITION: First
BINDING: Bound in orange cloth covered boards with blue titling on the front board and spine
NO.OF PAGES: pp 78, only plates
SIZE:
Height: 28 cm
Width: 24 cm
Depth: 1.5 cm

Photo Illustrated throughout in B&W.

Sir Cecil Walter Hardy Beaton CBE (1904-1980) was an English fashion, portrait and war photographer, diarist, painter, interior designer and an Academy Award-winning stage and costume designerfor films and the theatre. He was sent to India and China by the Ministry of Information to take photographs, and he published a narrative of his journey in 'Far East' (1945), however, only a few of the vast number of pictures taken could be used toillustrate it. Hence it was decided to issue two supplementary volumes, each reproducing about 100 photographs, under the titles of 'Indian Album' and 'Chinese Album'.