Lot 144
Goble, Warwick (illustrator)
Folk-Tales of Bengal by the Rev. Lal Behari Day
Auction: India in Ink: The Library of Dr Raj Krishna | 01 October 2026 from 10am | Lots 79 to 208
Description
with 32 illustrations in colour by Warwick Goble. London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1912. First Goble illustrated edition, 4to, original boards with gilt decoration and title to front board and spine, edges red, colour frontispiece and 31 further plates, each with facing caption, ink inscription and pencil annotation to front free endpaper, corners bumped;
Aldin, Cecil. The Romance of the Road. London: Eyre and Spottiswoode Limited, 1928. First edition, deluxe issue, one of 200 copies signed by the author, 4to (37 x 28cm), original vellum with gilt title to front board and spine, top edge gilt the others uncut, bookplate and pocket to front pastedown with folding colour map of London, tipped-in colour illustration of Emily Moore (to whom the book is dedicated), tipped-in colour frontispiece, 9 further tipped-in colour plates, each with captioned tissue guard, further maps and illustrations within the text, some scuffs and dust marks to vellum, foxing to tissue guards;
Jacobs, Joseph. Indian Fairy Tales. Illustrated by John D. Batten. London: David Nutt, 1892. First edition, deluxe issue on Japanese vellum, one of 160 copies signed by the publisher, 8vo, original boards, top edge gilt, the others uncut, 9 full-page illustrations including frontispiece, each illustration in 2 states, red woodblock designs bound-in, pencil annotation to front free endpaper and rear pastedown, boards worn with dampstaining to periphery of front board, spine rubbed, a couple of small areas of loss to vellum;
Bradley-Birt, F. B. Bengal Fairy Tales. With illustrations by Abanindranath Tagore. London: John Lane, 1920. First edition, 8vo, original cloth with gilt vignette to front board and gilt decoration and title to spine, six colour illustrations including frontispiece, original dustwrapper with vignette to front, dustwrapper dust-stained with some loss to head and tail of spine and splits to edges, top edge green the others uncut, short tear to fore-edge p. 35, occasional small areas of foxing;
Ganguli, Taraknath. The Brothers. From the Bengali of Svarnalata. Translated by Edward Thompson. London: The India Society, 1928. One of a limited edition of 425 copies printed and specially bound for members of The India Society, quarter linen with original dustjacket, numerical pencil marks to free endpaper, dustjacket dust-stained with a few short tears and dampstaining to spine;
Jacomb, Florence. Indian Fables from the Sanscrit of the Hitopadesa. Translated & illustrated by Florence Jacomb. London: Day & Son, (n.d., 1862/63?). First edition, 8vo, original cloth with decorative gilt illustrations and titles to front board, chromo-lithograph plates by W. R. Tymms throughout, each with facing tissue-guard, all edges gilt, blind-stamped decoration to rear board, gilt title to spine, gutta-percha perished, contents loose, numerical pencil annotation to front free endpaper, boards bumped;
Dulac, Edmund. Sindbad the Sailor and Other Stories from the Arabian Nights illustrated by Edmund Dulac. London: Houghton & Stoughton, 1914. First edition, 4to, original patterned cloth with gilt illustration and title to front board, gilt title to spine, 23 colour plates tipped-in, facing tissue guards with titles, head of spine split, corners bumped, edges rubbed, some occasional foxing not affecting plates;
together with 8 further books relating to India (15)
Provenance
INDIA IN INK: THE LIBRARY OF DR RAJ KRISHNA