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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