EXTREMELY RARE VOLUME OF INDIAN ART JOURNALS CONTAINING NUMEROUS PLATES BY INDIAN ARTISTS, LIKE RAJA RAVI VARMA'S BROTHER RAJA RAJA VARMA AND VARIOUS BRITISH ARTISTS LIKE THOMAS DANIELL ETC
THREE JOURNALS BOUND IN ONE
The titles in this lot are listed below. Details about each book follow further down.
1. HINDU ANNUAL 1928
2. HINDU ANNUAL 1929
3. MADRAS MAIL ANNUAL 1928'S
a)
Hindu Annual 1928
Madras, 1928, 38 pages, 12 plates including 4 colored plates, also includes an article on Santiniketan with illustrations.
b)
Hindu Annual 1929
Madras, 27 pages, 3 colored plates.
c)
Madras Mail Annual 1928's
Various pagination around 160 pages, 15 mounted colored plates, and numerous sketches and drawings in the text.
37 x 25 x 2 cms
Madras, December, 1929. Wraps. Good. Extremely scarce, with the only copy of this annual listed on OCLC. First Search in the British Library. The Annual, according to the British Library entry, ran from 1926 until 1931, and the only holder of any of these, as far as we could discover, is the British Library. Folio, 37 by 25 cm. Unpaginated, 68 leaves, or 136 pages, plus covers. With many black and white photos, and some color, of architecture, art, Indian people, etc.
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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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