Edited by Ramananda Chatterjee, No. 761 of a Limited Edition of 1500 copies

SIGNED BY RABINDRANATH TAGORE ON FREE FRONT END PAPER, dated March 8, 1932, Calcutta. 

Published by the Golden Book Committee, 1931

Lacks Frontispiece [Photographic portrait of Tagore] which has been provided in a fine Xerox copy. Of the remaining 29 plates, many are tipped-in colour plates [with tissue guards carrying title and artist’s name] by Abanindranath Tagore, Nandalal Bose, Asit Kumar Haldar, A. D. Thomas, Gaganendranath Tagore, Samarendra Nath Gupta, Abdur Rahman Chughtai and Ramendra Nath Chakravarti. Others are reproductions of works by a Chinese and a Japanese artist, portraits of Tagore done by eminent Indian and Western artists and early photographs of Tagore.

Each copy of this book had a facsimile reproduction of a handwritten and signed letter by Tagore on Santiniketan letterhead relating to the publication loosely inserted. This has been pasted on front pastedown. This facsimile letter also proves the signatures of Tagore are genuine.