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THE GOLDEN BOOK OF TAGORE:

WELL-ILLUSTRATED TRIBUTE TO

RABINDRANATH TAGORE

THE GOLDEN BOOK OF TAGORE - A Homage to

Rabindranath Tagore from India and the World in

Celebration of His Seventieth Birthday

Edited by Ramananda Chatterjee

No. 513 of a Limited Edition of 1500 copies

CALCUTTA: Published by the Golden BookCommittee/

1931

Size: 12 x 9 inches

Pp xx, 374 + 30 plates

Frontispiece [Photogravure portrait of Tagore] + 29

plates, many of them tipped-in colour plates [with

tissue guards carrying title and artist's name] by

Abanindra Nath Tagore, NandaLal Bose, Asit Kumar

Haldar, A. D. Thomas, Gogonendra Nath Tagore,

Samarendra Nath Gupta, Abdur Rahman Chughtai and

Ramendra Nath Chakravarti. Others are reproductions

of works by a Chinese and a Japanese artist, portraits of

Tagore done by eminentIndian and Western artists and

early photographs of Tagore.

A facsimile reproduction of a handwritten and signed

letter by Tagore on Santiniketan letterhead relating to

the publication loosely inserted.

Bound in silk with a painting in vegetaldesign pasted on

cover.

The final page states that the blocks for the illustrations

in the book were engraved and printed at U. Ray &

Sons. The firm was owned by the family of Satyajit Ray.

CONDITION: Covers soiled and grubby but the bookis

sound inside. With 1932 signature of Ram B. Motwani

of Larkana, Sind, on endpaper.

Rs 80,000-Rs 1,00,000

$1,235-$1,540