BOOKS ON INDIAN MINIATURE ART (SET OF 11)

• Karl Khandalavala, Pahari Miniature Painting, Bombay: The New Book Company Private Limited, 1958

pp. 584 including 47 tipped-in colour plates; 91 black and white photographic plates and 68 black and white illustrations; cloth-backed publisher's illustrated boards with dust jacket
15 x 10.5 in (38.1 x 26.6 cm)

This copy is numbered 117 out of a limited-edition of 1000 copies.

• M S Randhawa, Kangra Paintings of Love, New Delhi: National Museum, 1962

209 pages with 89 black and white plates including 69 text figures, 26 full page tipped-in colour plates; original black cloth, gilt lettering on spine and with dust jacket.
12.25 x 9 in (31.5 x 23 cm)

This book brings together for the first time a significant series of paintings on the theme of love-the Nayaka-Nayikas and the Baramasas as portrayed on traditional lines by the Hindi poets, like Keshav Das, Bihari Lal and others. This provides also for the first time a free English translation of Keshav Das's Rasikapriya which inspired the artists of this series.

• M S Randhawa, Basohli Painting, New Delhi: Publications Division, Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, Government of India, 1959

125 pages including 38 tipped-in colour plates and 5 black and white plates; cream cloth board with red titles on front board and spine along with pictorial dust jacket
13 x 10 in (33 x 25.4 cm)

• Pramod Chandra, Bundi Painting, New Delhi: Lalit Kala Akademi, 1959

Folio in textured stiff card covers with tipped-in colour plate to front cover (as issued), 6 pages of text in English with one black and white plate, plus 10 full page tipped-in colour plates mounted on thick art paper with facing detailed descriptions, each with tissue guard.
13.5 x 10.5 in (34.5 x 26.5 cm)

• N D Sharma, Rasamanjari, Srinagar: Jammu and Kashmir Academy of Arts, Culture and Languages, [1969]

Folder with 6 loose pages of introductory text by Mulk Raj Anand with three sepia text in illustrations, 6 loose tipped-in colour plates, each with a descriptive text beneath the plate
10 x 13.25 in (25.5 x 34 cm)

• Basil Gray, Rajput Painting: With an introduction and notes by Basil Gray, London: Faber and Faber Limited, 1948

22 pages including 10 tipped-in colour plates, each with a descriptive text at the adjacent page; original stiff-card wrapper without the dust jacket
12 x 9.5 in (31 x 24.5 cm)

• Asok Kumar Das, Treasures of Indian Painting from The Maharaja Sawai Man Singh II Museum, Jaipur: Series One, Jaipur: The Director for the Maharaja Sawai Man Singh II Museum Trust, 1976

Folder of 6 stand-alone plates from the Maharaja Sawai Man Singh II Museum, Jaipur, India. Commentary by Asok Kumar Das. From the Mughal Empire, ca. 1612- 1799.
12 x 10.5 in (31.5 x 26.5 cm)

• W G Archer, Central Indian Painting, London: Faber and Faber Limited, 1958

24 pages with 10 tipped-in color plates by Fine Arts Engravers; softbound with dust jacket
12.25 x 9.75 in (31 x 25 cm)

• Karl Khandalavala, Moti Chandra, Collection of Miniatures and Sculptures, Bombay: The Board of Trustees of the Prince of Wales Museum, 1965

44 pages including 143 black and white plates on Miniatures, Gandhara Sculptures, Mathura Sculptures and South Indian bronzes along with 14 tipped-in colour plates.
11.5 x 8.75 in (29 x 22.5 cm)

• Toby Flak, Mildred Archer, Indian Miniatures in the India Office Library, London: Sotheby Parke Bernet and Delhi and Karachi: Oxford University Press, 1981

560 pages including 16 colour plates and 567 illustrations; orange cloth board with dust jacket
11.75 x 8.75 in (30 x 22.5 cm)

A catalogue of the collection at the India Office Library which contains approximately 1,700 Indian miniatures which date from the sixteenth to the nineteenth century. The collection includes pictures covering all aspects of Indian life, highlighting religion, religious practices, festivals, historical scenes, mythology, adaptations of European pictures and a wealth of portraiture. It is illustrated with several black and white and color plates and the catalogue is preceded by a survey of the history, growth and scope of the collection.

This is a presentation copy.

• Yashodhara Dalmia, The Warlis: Tribal Paintings and Legends, Bombay: Chemould Publications and Arts, 1985

28 plates on themes of gods, people, animals, and rites and rituals (The Gods, The People, The Animals and Rites and Rituals,), with descriptive text for them on the adjoining pages; beige cloth board with pictorial dust jacket
8.75 x 10.25 in (22.5 x 26 cm)

(Set of 11)

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