The Library of Chester Beatty: A Catalog of the Indian Miniatures [Three volume set]

  • London: Privately Printed by John Johnson at The Oxford University Press and Published by Emery Walker, Limited, 1936
By [Chester Beatty]; Sir Thomas W. Arnold; J.V.S. Wilkinson [ed.]
London: Privately Printed by John Johnson at The Oxford University Press and Published by Emery Walker, Limited, 1936. Very Good. London: Privately Printed by John Johnson at The Oxford University Press and Published by Emery Walker, Limited, 1936. First Edition. Three folio volumes. Nineteen color plates and eighty-four in monochrome with tissue guards, collated and complete. Gray cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine. Ex-library though with minimal institutional markings.

Boards edgeworn with minor fraying and bumping to corners; signs of sticker removal to bases of spines; general smudging. Bindings sound. Institutional stamps and remnants of stickers to edges of text block and preliminaries; dampstaining to plates 9, 14, and 17 of volume II; interiors else unmarked. A Very Good set; uncommon complete.

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