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5 COLLECTIONS OF ILLUSTRATIONS
CHATTERJEE'S PICTURE ALBUMS Nos. 2, 3 and 4 [3
issues]
Calcutta: Modern Review Office
Each issue measures 11.5 x 9 inches and has paintings
largely by Bengal School artists, many of them well-
known and others forgotten today.
Each issue also has one or two pages of text
commenting on the paintings.
The 3 issues offered have 48 colour plates in all.
The album was issued by Ramanand Chatterjee, editor
of the monthly 'The Modern Review', in the 1920s.
CONDITION: No. 2 - A finecopy / No. 3 - Covers
detached / No. 4 - Covers and the sheet of notes at the
end are photocopies but the 16 art plates are originals.
THE INDIAN ACADEMY OF ART - An Illustrated
Journal of Fine Arts
January 1921 issue
Single issue of a rare journal brought out in Calcutta by
Hemen Mazumdar and others
Articles are interspersed with reproductions of paintings
and sculptures in colour and b&w by 13 artists including
H. Mazumdar, Atul Bose, J. Roy, S. Sinha, Ata-ur Rahman,
S. G. Thackar [sic.] Singh and B. V. Talim.
This copy belonged to sculptor B. V. Talim, who has
signed it and written his Bombay address on it in 1921.
Talim built the statue of the Sai Baba of Shirdi.
Stitched wrappers / 15 x 10 inches
FIFTEEN DRYPOINTS by MUKUL DEY
Interpreted in Verse by Harindranath Chattopadhyaya
Limited edition of 250 copies of which this is No.
212, signed by Mukul Dey across his seal and also by
Chattopadhyaya
Published by Mukul Dey in Calcutta & Chattopadhyaya
in Bombay / 23 July 1939
pp. 19 + 15 drypoint etchings on art paper [2 lacking]
with a related poem on facing page [1 lacking] and
a crayon sketch of chattopadhyaya by Mukul Dey as
frontispiece
size: 11 x 9 inches
Biege cloth binding withbevelled edges and title
embossed in red on cover
Lacks the etching 'The Guru, Abanindranath Tagore'
and the related poem, and the etching 'Cloudland' all
of which have been provided in excellent Xeroxes and
pasted in place.
SOLD AS A COLLECTION OF PLATES
TWENTY PORTRAITS By Mukul Dey
Calcutta: Thacker, Spink & Co., 1943
Size: 11 x 9 inches
No pagination.
Preface + List of Plates followed by 20 tipped-in
monochrome plates [lacks one of Rabindranath Tagore]
and text onfacing pages.
Limited Edition of 1000 copies
Portraits made between 1917 and 1942 of Sri
Aurobindo Ghose, Sir Maurice Gwyer, Annie Besant,
Sir John Anderson, C. F. Andrews, W. W. Pearson,
Albert Einstein, Sven Hedin, Sarojini Naidu, Sir
FrancisYounghusband, Ernest O'G. Kirwan, Sarat
Chandra Chatterji, George S. Arundale, Sir Dorabji Tata,
Rukmini Devi, Bimala Churn Law, Werner Keventer,
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, Abanindra Nath
Tagore.
Condition: Poor. Binding loose; front cover and 1tipped-
in plate lacking [Rabindranath Tagore]
SOLD AS A COLLECTION OF PLATES
INDIAN HISTORICAL PICTURES Selected for Use in
Schools
Bombay: K. J. Cooper
No date [c. 1912]
pp. 266 with 261 plates based on paintings and
photographs
Hardback in cloth with design on cover
10 x 7.5 inches
Fine copy but title-page hinge cracked.
Rs 60,000-Rs 80,000
$925-$1,235