Books illustrated by Abanindranath Tagore

a) Edward Fitzgerald, The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, London: Leopold B Hill, Circa 1910s

64 pages, 7 coloured plates; original red limp binding
9 x 6.5 in (23.6 x 16.5 cm)

b) Sister Nivedita (Margaret E Noble) and Ananda K Coomaraswamy, Myths of the Hindus & Buddhists, London: George G Harrap and Company Ltd., first published in1913, reprinted in 1932

xii, 426 pages. including 32 fine colour plates including a frontispiece; original green cloth binding.br.8.6 x 5.7 in (21.5 x 14.2 cm)

The present lot is a compilation of various Indian myths, featuring significant figures from major religious traditions, including Krishna, Buddha, and Shiva with chapters on the Ramayana and Mahabharata. The massive undertaking was initiated by Sister Nivedita, an Irish teacher, social activist and disciple of Swami Vivekananda, who died in 1911 before the project could be completed. Per her wishes, historian Ananda Coomaraswamy completed the remaining two-thirds of the book. All the colour plates in this book were illustrated by Indian artists Abanindranath Tagore, Nandalal Bose, K Venkatappa, Surendranath Kar, Kshitindranath Mazumdar and Asit Kumar Haldar, who worked under Tagore at the time.

c) F B Bradley Birt, Bengal Fairy Tales, London: The Bodley Head, 1920

pages [2]; x; 209; [3]. With six chromolithographic illustrations by Abanindranath Tagore including a frontispiece; publisher's green cloth with titles to spine and gilt decoration debossed to upper board, top edge gilt, others untrimmed
10.4 x 7.8 in (26.5 x 20 cm)

A diplomat and writer, F B Bradley Birt wrote, about her travels through India, Persia and the Middle East, along with various works of fiction such as the present lot.

(Set of three)

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