Palm-leaf and paper: Illustrated manuscripts of India and Southeast Asia Tapa blanda - 1982

National Gallery of Victoria, 1982. Soft cover. Good/No jacket. Spine is sunned and legibility is affected. Front cover edges are tanned, but readability is good. Text block and inside edges are tanned, however legibility is not impacted. Back binding glue is exposed. Inside is unmarked.

Published by The National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, 1982. 4to,pp.96 with black & white nd colour illustrations + a map,A Very Good Copy in a quality pictorial softcover binding. ISBN 0724100857.

National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, 1982. First Edition. Softcover. Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. 96 pages, foreword by Professor M.C. Ricklefs, Monash University History Department, preface by author, map of area and manuscripts were sourced, introduction by author, Essay " The care and conservation of Palm-Leaf and Paper illustrated Manuscripts " by O.P. Agrawal. Coloured Illustrated frontispiece, being a reproduction of a folio " Dewa Ruci " manuscript from Java. The text is illustrated with coloured photographs and numerous black-and-white illustrations from the exhibition. Illustrated front cover being " Bhagavata Purana -- Yasoda Nursing the Child Krsna " against a white background with red and black writing on the front panel and white on the spine. A little scuffing to the book corners and the white of the background has faded a little. Bumping to the top spine edge and there is rubbing and a crease down the full length of the spine. The spine… Leer más