BEATON, Cecil. An Indian Album. London: Batsford. 1945. Large 8vo. First edition. Publisher’s vibrant orange cloth lettered in blue to spine and front board, in the attractive dust jacket designed by Beaton. A very good copy, the cloth clean and bright, the binding tight and square, just a trifle bumped at the spine tips. The contents clean and fine but for small ink gift inscription to the front endpaper, and with a few very mild spots from paper quality, light crease to page 14. The dust jacket unclipped (12s 6d net), the spine slightly toned with a small handful of tiny chips to head, tail, corners and some edges, mostly obscured by the excellent jacket design.
A sharp example of Beaton’s wonderful photographic montage of his travels in India, a companion volume—alongside his ‘A Chinese Album’—with his book, Far East (1945). Beaton was sent to China and India by the Ministry of Information in 1943-44 as a war artist, the aim to capture not only military operations but the impact of war on society, its people and environs. Photographs here include Jemaldar bombardiers, Gurkhas, Bengali labourers, schoolchildren, temples, mountain coolies, and more. A captivating journal of wartime India.
BEATON, Cecil. An Indian Album. London: Batsford. 1945. Large 8vo. First edition. Publisher’s vibrant orange cloth lettered in blue to spine and front board, in the attractive dust jacket designed by Beaton. A very good copy, the cloth clean and bright, the binding tight and square, just a trifle bumped at the spine tips. The contents clean and fine but for small ink gift inscription to the front endpaper, and with a few very mild spots from paper quality, light crease to page 14. The dust jacket unclipped (12s 6d net), the spine slightly toned with a small handful of tiny chips to head, tail, corners and some edges, mostly obscured by the excellent jacket design.
A sharp example of Beaton’s wonderful photographic montage of his travels in India, a companion volume—alongside his ‘A Chinese Album’—with his book, Far East (1945). Beaton was sent to China and India by the Ministry of Information in 1943-44 as a war artist, the aim to capture not only military operations but the impact of war on society, its people and environs. Photographs here include Jemaldar bombardiers, Gurkhas, Bengali labourers, schoolchildren, temples, mountain coolies, and more. A captivating journal of wartime India.
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