Images of the Buddha in Thailand

  • [Bangkok: Chatra Press, 1957]
By BURIBHAND, Luang Boribal and A.B. Griswold
[Bangkok: Chatra Press, 1957]. Second edition (revised). Staple-bound pamphlet, 23cm x 16cm. Pictorial wrappers; 23pp text; 20 separately-numbered leaves of photographic plates (halftones). Mild external soil, still a tight, unmarked, Very Good copy. Brief treatise, for English-language readers, on the evolution of devotional sculpture in Thailand, by an important Thai Buddhist scholar and long-time curator of the National Museum in Bangkok. Uncommon.

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