ILLUSTRATED: 1 vignette, 1 frontis, 28 fine steel engraved plates with tissue guards. The attractive plates include many by J. M. W. Turner and T. Allom Roberts. Book 2: Minor foxing to plate margins, little harm to plates.
Ajanta, The Colour and Monochrome Reproductions of the Ajanta Frescoes based on Photography
Volumes: 1,2 and 4 of the “Plates” available.
Explanatory Text by G. Yazdani, M.A., Intro by Laurence Binyon Colour pl. by Henry Stone & Son, Banbury & F. Bruckmann, Munich. Text and Collotypes by John Johnson, Oxford.
Part 1: 16 Colour and 24 monochrome Plates of Cave 1 Part 2 : 18 Colour and 31 Monochrome Plates of Cave 2 Part 4 : 17 Colour and 65 Monochrome Plates of Caves 17-27
Full pp. plates , several clrd., collotypes, loose portfolio containing loose sheets.
Plates Condition: Near mint
Binding: Large, full cloth binding, portfolio style with tie-up ribbon on one side, gilt title in silver/gold on cover, marbled epps., loose sheets, sl. foxing, watermark on the cover of Vol. 4.
Binding Condition: Good+
NON EXPORTABLE FROM INDIA
KINDLY NOTE – EACH VOLUME IS SOLD INDIVIDUALLY, AND THE PRICE MENTIONED IS PER VOLUME.
Illustration: Several line drawings throughout, b/w full pp. pl.
Condition: Average.
Binding: 12×10”, pp.xi, 295, 299-466; orig. jute cl. with brown title to cover and sp., dj sl. frayed, inscription in pen to inside front pp., pp. yellowed
Illustration: 18 full pp. clrd. reproductions of orig. paintings with tissue guards.
Condition: Good+
Binding: 8.9×6.5”, pp.xii, 216, adverts [4]; full red cl. with elaborate dec. to cover and sp. with gilt peacock and tree in blue and pink, cover and sp. faded in parts, pp. sl. yellowed, edges sl. thumbed, teg.
Illustration: Signed on front inside pp. Several b/w full pp. and vignettes prints throughout, 1 folded map with clrd. Outlines but brittle.
Illustration Condition: Average
Binding: 25×16.5cm., Pp. xxviii, 709, 1pp. of adverts.; full brown cl. with image of mountain-climbers in black and white to cover with black title, gilt title to sp. with image, minor wormholes, cover frayed and binding loose, title pp. missing, sl. underlining in color pencil by previous owner.
Illustration: B/w frontis print of orig. painting.
Condition: Good+
Binding: 9×6”, pp. xii, 542; orig. green cl. with gilt bison head to cover with title, gilt title to sp. with reindeer head, sl. foxing, pp. sl. yellowed, inscription of ‘Mary O.A. Boreham’ to inside pp., ex libris of Mary O.A. Boreham.
