BOOKS ON INDIAN ART (SET OF 9)

• Mulk Raj Anand, Maharaja Ranjit Singh as Patron of The Arts, Bombay: Marg Publications, 1981

138 pages + a very large folding 'panorama' of portraits measuring 13 x 51 inches, black and white illustrated endpapers; yellow cloth hardbound with dust jacket
13 x 9.75 in (33 x 25 cm)

Full of colour and black and white illustrations on paintings, architecture, maps, plans and manuscripts. There are 12 scholarly essays.

• Mildred Archer, British Drawings in The India Office Library, London: Her Majesty’s Stationery Office, 1969

(In Two Volumes)
Volume I: Amateur Artists, pp. xvii, 364 + coloured frontispiece and 56 black and white plates at the end
Volume 2: Official and Professional artists, pp. xiii, 365-712+ coloured frontispiece and 64 black and white plates at the end + Bibliography, concordance and index

Original black cloth bound with gilt text on the spine along with dust jacket and illustration on the cover (each)
10 x 7.5 in (25.5 x 19 cm) (each)

• Midred Archer, Company Drawings in the India Office Library, London: Her Majesty's Stationery Office, 1972

298 pages including 74 plates and illustrations, 4 in colours; publishers' brown cloth with pictorial dust jacket
9.75 x 7.5 in (25 x 19 cm)

Catalogue of the 2750 drawings held in the collection. Company drawings were made by Indian artists who were employed by the British East India Office to illustrate the manners and customs of India.

• Midred Archer, Natural History Drawings in the India Office Library, London: Her Majesty’s Stationery Office, 1962

116 pages including 25 black and white plates; green cloth board with gilt emblem on the front board along with dust jacket
9.75 x 7.5 in (25 x 19 cm)

• W G Archer, Paintings of the Sikhs, London: Her Majesty's Stationery Office, 1966

pp. xxii, 284 including colour frontispiece and 112 black and white plates on glazed paper. With bibliography, biographical notes, glossary and index; publishers' cloth board with pictorial dustjacket
9.75 x 7.5 in (25 x 19 cm)

• W G Archer, Kalighat Paintings, London: Her Majesty’s Stationery Office, 1971

127 pages with 91 plates; mustard cloth board with dust jacket
9.75 x 7.5 in (25 x 19 cm)

• W G Archer, Visions of Courtly India: The Archer Collection of Pahari Miniatures, London: Sotheby Parke Bernet Publications, International Exhibitions Foundation, 1976

pp. xiii, 156 pages with 80 plates, 12 in colour; original clothbound with dust jacket
10.5 x 9.5 in (26.5 x 24.5 cm)

Catalogue of a travelling exhibition.

• Lionel Heath, Indian Art at the British Empire Exhibition, London: The India Society, 1925

31 pages with 16 black and white plates, with tissue guards. Illustrated throughout with reproductions of Indian miniaturists; bound in quarter linen binding over printed paper-covered boards.
10.75 x 8.5 in (27.5 x 22 cm)

Fine examples of Indian miniatures shown at the Exhibition mounted in Wembley, 1924 - 1925. Foreword by the Right Hon. the Earl of Ronaldshay.

• Andrew Topsfield, Indian Court Painting, Victoria and Albert Museum, 1984

47, [1] pages, illustrations with some in colour; hardbound with pictorial dustjacket
10 x 7.5 in (25.5 x 19.5 cm)

(Set of 9)

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