Twenty-Eight Drawings by Ananda Coomaraswamy
New York: Sunwise Turn, 1920. Limited Edition. Softcover. Thin folio. 12.5 x 9.25 inches. Original wrappers string-bound in the Japanese manner. Finely printed on rice paper. Paper title label laid on front wrapper. Twenty-eight reproductions of chalk or brush line-drawing studies of the female nude. Limited Edition of 250 copies, of which 222 were for sale. Original limitation slip laid in. Green rice paper wrappers sunned at periphery, creased, stained in spots. Closed tears to bottom edge and leading corner of rear wrapper with no material loss. Damp stain to leading edge of flyleaf, title page, and contents page. Pages of drawings in fine, unmarked condition. Quite scarce. Only 14 copies located through WorldCat (OCLC # 3644188), 2 of which are publicly held. Ananda Coomaraswamy, a prominent art historian and scholar of traditional iconography, served as curator in the Boston Museum of Fine Arts until his death in 1947. Very Good / No dust jacket as issued. Item #0000126
Price: $875.00