TITLE: The Golden Book of Tagore
SUBTITLE: A Homage to Rabindranath Tagore from India and the World in Celebration of His Seventieth Birthday
EDITOR: Ramananda Chatterjee
PUBLISHER: Golden Book Committee
PLACE: Calcutta
YEAR: 1931
EDITION: First
NUMBERED: No. 1213 of a limited edition of 1500 copies
NO.OF PAGES: xx, 374 + 30 plates including 1 Frontispiece [Photogravure portrait of Tagore] + 29 plates, many of them tipped-in colour plates [with tissue guards carrying title and artist's name] by Abanindra Nath Tagore, Nanda Lal Bose, Asit Kumar Haldar, A. D. Thomas, Gogonendra Nath Tagore, Samarendra Nath Gupta, Abdur Rahman Chughtai and Ramendra Nath Chakravarti. Others are reproductions of works by a Chinese and a Japanese artist, portraits of Tagore done by eminent Indian and Western artists and early photographs of Tagore.
With a printed hand-written letter by Tagore about the book loosely inserted.
BINDING: Bound in silk with a roundel in red and golden vegetal design pasted on the cover. A leather ticket with title embossed in gilt pasted on spine. Spine split by a few inches along with front cover.
SIZE:
Height: 30 cm
Width: 23 cm
Depth: 5 cm

CONDITION:
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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