Sudhin N. Ghose - Folk Tales & Fairy Stories from India - 1961

Title

Folk Tales & Fairy Stories from India

Author

Sudhin N. Ghose

Year

1961

Publisher

Golden Cockerel Press

Description

Limited edition of 500 copies, this being No. 283. Title-page vignette and decorated endpapers, with six full-page illustrations by Shrimati E. Carlile, executed in the traditional eighteenth-century Bengal style - sharp white line on a black ground, overprinted in brown.

Sudhin Ghose, a native of Burdwan - renowned since the time of Ptolemy the geographer and long regarded as a centre of storytelling rivalling Benares - here assembles a selection of distinguished fairy stories and folk tales drawn from Sanskrit, Pali, Hindi, Bengali, and other Indian sources. The narratives range in origin from the age of the Buddha to the period of Timur’s invasion of India and beyond. 

147 pp.

Condition

Well-preserved cover and pages