The Library of a Chester Beatty: A Catalogue of the Indian Miniatures (3 Volumes)

James Vere Stewart Wilkinson and Sir Thomas Walker Arnold, The Library of a Chester Beatty: A Catalogue of the Indian Miniatures, London: Oxford University Press, 1936

A three-volume edition
Volume I (text): xliii + 87 pages
Volume II (plates): 1 colour frontispiece; 9 colour plates; 44 black-and-white plates
Volume III (plates): 1 colour frontispiece; 8 colour plates; 40 black-and-white plates

Original green cloth, spines lettered in gilt, top edges trimmed, others untrimmed
18.5 x 13.2 x 0.8 in (46.3 x 33 x 2 cm) (each)

An extensive and finely illustrated production detailing the collection of Indian miniatures of Alfred Beatty (1875-1968), a copper mining tycoon who built up one of the world's greatest collections of western and oriental manuscripts. The cataloguing of Beatty's collection of Indian miniatures was originally undertaken by Thomas Walker Arnold. Upon his death in June 1930 the project was delayed, until James Vere Stuart Wilkinson resumed the process, including new additions to the collection. The manuscripts and miniatures detailed portray some of the finest products of the Mughal court painters from the 16th century onwards, alongside some of the work of artists from the provinces of the Mughal empire.