Calcutta: The Birla Academy of Art and Culture. 4to (24x26.5cm), 60pp, 24 color plates, in original pictorial binding, good condition.

A Centenary Volume.

Calcutta: Tagore Centenary Citizens Committee, 1961. First Edition, 4to (16x24cm), 101pp, paperback binding with dust jacket. Good condition.

Calcutta: Visva Bharati, 1951. First Edition, 4to (21.5x28cm),  25 Photographs of Rabindranath Tagore, recent full leather binding, title in gilt on spine, good condition.

Calcutta: Shri Pritindra Krishna Bhattacharya, Government of West Bengal, Department of Information & Cultural Affairs, 1988. First Edition, 4to (17x25.5cm), 125pp, 19 plates, in original cloth binding with dust jacket, good condition.

Calcutta: A. N. Tagore Birth Centenary Committee. 1972. Folio (38x31cm), 24 plates, in original canvas folder.

 Abanindranath Tagore was born on August 7 1871 at Jorasanko the residence of the Tagore family in Calcutta. He grew up in an atmosphere vibrant with cultural activities in every field literature music painting and drama. At the request of his uncle Rabindranath Abanindranath illustrated his uncle's poems which were published in Sadhana Magazine. Abanindranath was drawn to the Vaisnava Lyrics and started painting episodes from Krishna Lila in the Indian technique 1895. Apart from painting and sculpture Abanindranath was also a very distinguished writer.

Calcutta: Indian Museum, 1987. 4to (23.5x28.5cm), 15pp, 12 plates, in original pictorial binding. Paintings and Drawings of The Kalighat Style.

Ahmedabad: Mapin Publishing, 1995. 4to (30x22cm), 176pp, 126 colour photographs, map, glossary and bibliography, in original hard binding with dust jacket, good condition.

In the 15th century, perhaps as a reaction to the increasingly ascetic direction in which Hinduism was going, there was born in Vraja, in North India, a new offset of Krishna worship called Pushti Marga, the Path of Grace.

The founder, Vallabhacharya, stressed worship through the joys of life and living, and devotion to Krishna as the royal child Shrinathji through song, dance, dress, decoration and painting. The Paintings constitute the Nathdvara school so named because the image of Shrinathji is enshrined in a temple in Nathdvara, Rajasthan.

With over 120 colour reproductions, this book is the first major work on the subject. Says the well-known art historian Ratan Parimoo, "The books is a valuable study of a sub-school of Rajasthani painting linking it with other Indian styles of painting from the British Colonial period. Till now this school had only been associated with pichhvais on attention to the exquisite miniatures on paper in their true religious context."

New Delhi: Delhi Art Gallery, 2005. First Edition, 4to (24x23.5cm), 300pp, in original hard cover binding, nice condition.

New Delhi: National Book Trust, 1973. First Edition, 4to (28x22cm), 162pp with numerous black and white illustrations, in original cloth binding, title in gilt on spine.

London: George G. Harrap & Company, 1913. 4to (24x26.5cm), 398pp, with 32 tissue guarded illustrations in color, Original pictorial canvas hardcover binding, Picture of lord Ganesha on the front cover, title in gilt on spine and front.  

The illustrations are reproduced from water-colour drawings executed specially for this book by Indian artists Abanindra Nath Tagore, Nanda Lal Bose, K. Venkatappa, Khitindra Nath Mazumdar et, under the supervision of Mr. Abanindro Nath Tagore, C.I.E., Vice-Principal of the Calcutta School of Art, who has himself contributed some of the pictures.